BlockCamp Desert Rock, Nevada
26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Yucca Flat census division. It stands on West Sandy Wash. The Survey maps it on the Camp Desert Rock quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 26 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS Furnace Creek quadrangle1:250000
- 1910 USGS Furnace Creek quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Skull Mountain quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Specter Range quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Camp Desert Rock quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Beatty quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Camp Desert Rock between 1994 and 2006, burning about 88 acres in total. 3 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 | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | MERCURY |
| 13 August 1994 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest | not named |
| 1 July 2006 | Natural | 86 acres | Southern Nevada District Office | FWS 11 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 2.7 miles | 20 | |
| Amargosa (historical) | 8.3 miles | 24 | |
| Stirling (historical) | 10.3 miles | 20 | |
| Crystal | 12.2 miles | 21 | |
| Labbe Camp | 12.3 miles | 21 | |
| Bowlerville (historical) | 12.4 miles | 21 | |
| Johnnie | 14.6 miles | 21 | |
| Wahmonie (historical) | 14.7 miles | 27 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 863748. 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.