Blackburn, Nevada

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Beowawe census division. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Hill NW quadrangle.

Blackburn within Eureka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1937 USGS Mineral Hill quadrangle1:48000
1937 USGS Mineral Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Mineral Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Mineral Hill NW quadrangle1:24000
1987 USGS Crescent Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Blackburn between 1993 and 2019, burning about 755 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 1 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	DRY CREEK
2 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	SLAUGHTER
29 August 2017	Natural	2.0 acres	Elko District Office	MINERAL HILL
29 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	LITTLE TREE
18 August 2018	Natural	15 acres	Elko District Office	UNION PASS
16 August 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Elko District Office	SHEEP
6 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Elko District Office	MM 46
23 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	TABLE 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eureka County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Blackburn: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zeolites. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Pine Creek Valley	Zeolites	Occurrence	Erionite, Phillipsite
	Pine Creek Valley	Zeolites	Unknown

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mineral	3.9 miles	15
Shannon	9.0 miles	15
Alpha	15.1 miles	15
Buckhorn	17.0 miles	11
Thomas Place	19.1 miles	14
Corwin	20.2 miles	15
Romano (historical)	20.7 miles	19
White (historical)	20.8 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 857908. 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.