Brown, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Pioche census division. The Survey maps it on the Acoma quadrangle.

Brown within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1885 USGS Pioche quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1886 USGS Pioche quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Acoma quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Brown between 1994 and 2018, burning about 3,719 acres in total. 53 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	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
7 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	GREY DOME
6 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	SEVENTY
3 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	FA TWENTYTHREE
14 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	HUSKER
9 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	CREST
9 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Ely District Office	HORTON
7 August 1994	Natural	1,900 acres	Southern Nevada District Office	BROWNCREST
4 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	NAT OUT TWELVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brown: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Perlite. 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
	Unnamed Perlite Deposit	Perlite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Crestline	3.9 miles	14
Acoma	4.6 miles	14
Horseshoe Bend	5.3 miles	14
Crossroads	7.1 miles	14
Joseco	8.9 miles	14
Barclay	9.0 miles	14
Islen	11.3 miles	14
Ninemile Rocks	13.1 miles	14

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 Brown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54959651	The 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 855978. 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.