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Blue Diamond, Nevada

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89004. It lies near Cottonwood Valley. The Survey maps it on the Blue Diamond quadrangle. 268 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,383 feet above sea level.

Blue Diamond within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Blue Diamond fell from 290 to 268 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
2010290
2020268-22 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Blue Diamond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 838 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 6 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Natural34
Equipment and vehicle use11
Arson/incendiarism6
Fireworks6
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking3
Debris and open burning3
Other causes1

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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District Office16015CLARK
8 September 2008Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeNAT OUT 1
7 September 2010Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeWHEELER CAMP
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeSCENIC
5 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeBONNIE2
5 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeBONNIE3
3 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCCFD 17
3 September 2009Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeBENEDICT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Blue Diamond: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, 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
Last ChanceSilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStonePast Producer
Blue Diamond MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1925
Blue Diamond Pit & MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1969
Mateucci Gypsum DepositGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Unnamed MinesGypsum-AnhydriteProspect

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Diamond in 24 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 19 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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 2011Flash FloodBlue Diamond$25,000Roads leading into Bonnie Springs and Spring Mountain Ranch State Park were washed out by flooding. A co-op observer in the area reported 1.73 inches of rain.
July 2015Flash FloodBlue Diamond$10,000Water and rocks flowed over several roads, and at least seven swift water rescues occurred. Up to 1.13 inches of rain fell in one hour.
August 2013LightningBlue Diamond$10,000Lightning struck and exploded a transformer.
August 2014Flash FloodBlue Diamond$5,000Highway 159 was closed by flooding and debris. Spring Mountain Ranch State Park was also closed.
July 2018Flash FloodBlue Diamond$2,000Flash flooding affected Highway 159.
September 2014Flash FloodBlue Diamond$2,000Lots of mud and rocks washed onto Tropicana between Hualapai and Fort Apache.
March 2023FloodBlue Diamond$1,000Water flowed over Spring Mountain Ranch Road.
March 2019Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000Bonnie Springs Rd was closed due to flooding.
July 2018Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000Flooding closed the entrance to Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.
February 2017Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000The Red Rock Scenic Loop and the access roads to Bonnie Springs Ranch and Spring Mountain State Park were all closed due to flooding.
June 2016Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000A debris flow covered Highway 159 near Bonnie Springs.
October 2015Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000Over six inches of rapidly flowing water was reported at the entrance to Spring Mountain Ranch State Park.
July 2014Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000Four to six inches of water and mud flowed across a side road.
August 2014Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000Arroyo Road was flooded 8-12 inches deep.
September 2014Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000Arroyo Road was closed due to flooding.
August 2013Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000Highway 159 was closed at Highway 160 due to flooding.
October 2012Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000Water and debris were crossing Arroyo Road in Blue Diamond.
October 2012Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000The main road to Spring Mountain Ranch State Park flooded near the park entrance.
August 2012Flash FloodBlue Diamond$1,000One foot of water flowed over both Bonnie Springs Road and the Spring Mountain Ranch State Park access road just west of Highway 159.
May 2015HailBlue Diamond-Quarter size hail fell for 15 minutes.
December 2010Flash FloodBlue Diamond-Bonnie Springs Road and Arroyo Road were closed due to flooding.
July 1999Flash FloodBlue Diamond-Approximately 1.5 inches of rain fell in the Red Rock Canyon area, just west of Las Vegas, with over an inch of rainfall recorded in a 30 minute period. The resulting runoff flooded roads around the Red Rock scenic loop and forced closures in nearby Calico Basin.
July 2018HailBlue Diamond-no account filed
June 2016HailBlue Diamond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Bonnie Springs2.8 miles25
Mountain Springs5.8 miles22
Exploration Peak Park7.5 miles24
Mountain's Edge8.7 miles24
Enterprise8.7 miles24
Arden9.4 miles24
Spring Valley9.4 miles24
Bard9.7 miles27

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 Blue DiamondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1889583The 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 847248. 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.