Bristol Well, Nevada

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Bristol Wells Town Sitelisted 1972 · 0.4 miles away

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.

• 1915 USGS Bristol Range quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1917 USGS Bristol Range quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Lund quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Lund quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Bristol Well quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Wilson Creek Range quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Bristol Well (historical) between 1994 and 2018, burning about 680 acres in total. 47 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bristol
• Jackrabbit (historical)
• Tempest (historical)
• Boyd
• Etna
• Flat Nose

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Bristol Well (historical): 29 past producers, 7 prospects, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 851115. 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.