Bull Fork, Nevada

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Duckwater census division. The Survey maps it on the Bull Fork quadrangle.

Bull Fork within Nye County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1956 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Moody Peak quadrangle1:62500
1979 USGS Mt. Hamilton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Bull Fork quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bull Fork between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. 5 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	5

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
29 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	GOVERNOR
16 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	BIG LOUIE
11 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	NAT OUT FOUR
11 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	BLACK POINT
11 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	NAT OUT THREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nye 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
Duckwater	10.1 miles	8
Currant	27.6 miles	7
Gold Point (historical)	28.4 miles	10
Allred (historical)	29.6 miles	8
Pritchards Station	29.8 miles	9
Lockes	35.8 miles	8
Morey	38.2 miles	10
Stargo (historical)	39.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 855980. 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.