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Bunkerville, Nevada

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89007. The Survey maps it on the Flat Top Mesa quadrangle. 1,069 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,532 feet above sea level.

Bunkerville within Clark County

On record in Bunkerville

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bunkerville fell from 1,303 to 1,069 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
20101,303
20201,069-234 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

49 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Bunkerville between 1996 and 2020, burning about 902 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Firearms and explosives use1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCCFD 12
16 September 2001Debris and open burning180 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeVIRGINRIVE
4 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeWHITE ROCK
20 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeELBOW CANYON
20 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCCFD 7
2 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeWHITE ROCK
18 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeMESQUITE
17 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.2 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeCOCHINO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Bunkerville: 6 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Envirochem MillCopper, Nickel, SilverPlant
Lee Bros. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Aggandize Mining Company MillGold, SilverUnknown
White Park R.D. MillGold, SilverUnknown
Bruna Biasi WellGeothermalProducer
Bunkerville Water Users Assoc.GeothermalProducer
Hafen Dairy WellGeothermalProducer
Mesquite Farmers Water Assoc. WellGeothermalProducer
Mesquite Farmstead WellGeothermalProducer
Unnamed WellGeothermalProducer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bunkerville in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2006: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 1998Flash FloodBunkerville$30,000no account filed
September 1998Thunderstorm WindBunkerville$20,000no account filed
July 2006Flash FloodBunkerville-Flooding on the road from Bunkerville to Virgin Peak. Graders had to move mud and debris off the road, and some asphalt was washed away. Relayed from wildfire crews through Incident Meteorologist on site.

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
Mesquite3.9 miles20
Riverside5.5 miles20
Saint Joseph (historical)21.9 miles21
Old Overton (historical)22.2 miles21
Simonsville (historical)22.2 miles21
Logandale22.5 miles21
Moapa Valley22.5 miles21
Amber22.5 miles21

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 BunkervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2482963The 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 845390. 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.