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Beowawe, Nevada

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Beowawe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89821. The Survey maps it on the Beowawe quadrangle. It stands 4,695 feet above sea level.

Beowawe within Eureka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1940

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Saloon. Beowawe, Nevada
Saloon. Beowawe, Nevada
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Beowawe between 1993 and 2019, burning about 17,790 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
14 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use963 acresElko District OfficeCLOSET
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresElko District OfficeCOYOTE
13 August 2014Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeCOTTONWOOD
10 August 1993Natural40 acresElko District OfficeBEOWAWE
1 August 2018Natural38 acresElko District OfficeRIVER
8 July 2017Natural152 acresElko District OfficeMAIDENS GRAVE
6 July 2019Natural148 acresElko District OfficePANNING
5 July 2005Fireworks657 acresElko District OfficeBEOWOWEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eureka County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Beowawe: 6 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Silver, Barium-Barite, Silver, Copper. 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
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sansenina MineBarium-Barite, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Silver OccurrenceSilverOccurrence
Unnamed SilverSilverOccurrenceVein
Beowawe MineMercuryPast Producer1924
Beowawe MineMercuryProducer
Mercury OccurrenceMercuryOccurrence
Red Devil MineMercuryPast Producer1924, 1925
Red Devil MineMercuryPast Producer
Unnamed MercuryMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar

Every working recorded in Eureka County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beowawe in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBeowawe-Station (UP972) EBEOW1 upr, Elevation 4735 feet.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBeowawe-Downburst winds occurred at station (UP972) 3.2 E Beowawe, Elevation 4734 feet.
August 2004Flash FloodBeowawe-State highway 306 was flooded 4 miles south of Beowawe and some highway erosion was reported.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBeowawe-Thunderstorm winds blew down 1 1/2 inch diameter tree limbs.

Every storm recorded in Eureka 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
Harney8.2 miles10
Cluro8.2 miles10
Rixies8.2 miles10
Shoshone8.4 miles10
Dunphy8.5 miles10
Primeaux10.1 miles10
Barth11.1 miles10
Gerald (historical)12.1 miles14

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 BeowaweAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3495751The 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 856191. 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.