Beaver, Nevada

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Elko census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89801. The Survey maps it on the Coal Mine Canyon SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Beaver within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Coal Mine Canyon SE quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Double Mtn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Beaver (historical) between 1997 and 2019, burning about 181 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	TWELVEMILE WELL
29 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	WELL
16 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Elko District Office	DEVILS GATE
1 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	CHARLIE CA
24 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Elko District Office	DG RANCH
24 July 2006	Natural	180 acres	Elko District Office	LOWER MARBLE
21 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	FORCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Halleck	9.9 miles	12
Ryndon	10.2 miles	11
Elburz	10.5 miles	11
Osino	12.3 miles	11
Deeth	13.6 miles	10
Coin	16.8 miles	11
Dinner Station	17.8 miles	9
Ballous Addition	21.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 850937. 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.