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Caliente, Nevada

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Caliente census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89008. It lies near Clover Creek Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Caliente quadrangle. 990 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,406 feet above sea level.

Caliente within Lincoln County

On record in Caliente

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

Caliente fell from 1,130 to 990 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
20101,130
2020990-140 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Caliente between 1992 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 112 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
Natural112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeOXBO
6 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreEly District OfficeDUTCH FLAT
4 September 2017Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeKERSHAW
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeKNOLL
16 September 1995Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeOAKSPRING2
15 September 2003Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeASH
14 September 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeASHCANYON
14 September 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeTEPEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 Caliente: 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Gold, Silver, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
CalienteZeolitesOccurrence
Caliente Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Caliente Perlite MillPerlitePlant
Caliente ProspectsGold, SilverOccurrence
Caliente ProspectsSilver, Gold, CopperProspect1994
M. K. Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer1975
Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Union Pacific QuarryStoneProducerQuartzite
Quicksilver Jim ClaimsMercuryOccurrence1967
Quicksilver Jim ClaimsMercuryOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caliente in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 flash flood, 3 hail, 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
July 1996Flash FloodCaliente$250,000no account filed
September 2014Flash FloodCaliente$100,000A mud slide washed out a section of Union Pacific railroad track, derailing a locomotive.
September 2022Flash FloodCaliente$50,000Hwy 317 was closed, and water flowed through stores in southeast Caliente off Elle Mtn.
August 2012Flash FloodCaliente$25,000Four to five feet of water flowed out of Clover Canyon into Clover Creek, closing Highway 317.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCaliente$10,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down a dozen trees at the Caliente Youth Center.
June 2016Flash FloodCaliente$1,000Highway 93 was closed due to flooding.
July 2016Flash FloodCaliente$1,000Highway 317 was closed south of Caliente.
August 2015Flash FloodCaliente$1,000Highway 317 was flooded near the train bridge just south of Highway 93.
July 2007HailCaliente-At Beaver Dam State Park.
August 2005Flash FloodCaliente-Highway 93 impassable 10 miles west of Caliente.
August 2003Flash FloodCaliente-An intense thunderstorm produced flash flooding in and around the town of Caliente. Several roads in town were impassable from mud and debris.
October 2015HailCaliente-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodCaliente-no account filed
July 1996HailCaliente-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Strawberry Hill0.4 miles15
Kershaw (historical)1.8 miles15
Indian Cove2.9 miles14
Yoacham (historical)3.2 miles14
Eccles4.3 miles14
Etna5.2 miles15
Stine9.2 miles16
Cold Spring10.5 miles16

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 CalienteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q749099The 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 847266. 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.