Canon City, Nevada

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.

• 1955 USGS Millett quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Austin quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Millett quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Smith Creek Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS West of Austin quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Canon City between 1996 and 2019, burning about 771 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Austin
• Clifton (historical)
• Amador (historical)
• Jacobsville (historical)
• Clinton (historical)
• Geneva (historical)

Every fire recorded in Lander County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 142 workings within 5 miles of Canon City: 118 past producers, 12 unknowns, 10 prospects, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Antimony, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lander County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 846984. 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.