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Beatty, Nevada

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Beatty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89003. It lies near Oasis Valley. The Survey maps it on the Beatty quadrangle. 880 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,307 feet above sea level.

Beatty within Nye County

Population over time

2 figures

Beatty fell from 1,010 to 880 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,010
2020880-130 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 25 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Beatty between 2003 and 2014, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 September 2014Naturalunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeRHYOLITE
27 August 2011Natural4.6 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeBULLFROG
14 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeSTAGECOACH
8 February 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeBVFD AST 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 90 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 90 workings within 5 miles of Beatty: 36 past producers, 24 prospects, 20 occurrences, 9 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Balik ClaimGold, Copper, SulfurOccurrenceVein
Bond Gold Bullfrog MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincProducer1989
Butler ProspectUranium, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Bvc ClaimsGold, MercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Bvc ClaimsGold, MercuryProspect
Crowell MineSilica, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, CalciumPast Producer1918, 1919
Daisy Gold MineGold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Mercury, Clay, Arsenic, Copper, Molybdenum, ThalliumProducer1918, 1919, 2001
Daisy MineFluorine-Fluorite, Mercury, UraniumPast Producer1906
Grizzly ClaimLead, Copper, Gold, SilverProspect
Marvin Walker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer1975

Every working recorded in Nye County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beatty in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2018: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBeatty$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs in and just south of Beatty.
August 2012Flash FloodBeatty$5,000North Avenue in Beatty was washed out at the west end, and covered with mud elsewhere.
October 2015Flash FloodBeatty$2,000Highway 95 was closed in and near Beatty due to flooding.
July 2014Flash FloodBeatty$2,000Highway 95 was flooded and impassable near Beatty.
July 2018Flash FloodBeatty$1,000The Amargosa River flooded a road in Oasis Valley. One inch of rain fell in 30 minutes.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBeatty-Recorded by sensors on the Nevada Test Site.

Every storm recorded in Nye County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gold Center2.8 miles24
Fluorine (historical)3.6 miles25
Rhyolite3.7 miles25
Bullfrog (historical)4.1 miles25
Hot Springs5.1 miles25
Original (historical)6.5 miles24
Gold Bar (historical)7.4 miles24
Carrara (historical)7.8 miles24

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BeattyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q813330The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 845356. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.