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Carvers, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Round Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89045. It stands on Broad Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carvers quadrangle. It stands 5,643 feet above sea level.

Carvers within Nye County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Carvers between 1994 and 2018, burning about 689 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
20 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeDARROUGH
20 August 1999Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBELCHER
12 August 2001Natural1.0 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeMANHATAN 2
10 August 2001Naturalunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeDEVIL
10 August 2001Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestCARVERS
4 July 2006Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestJETT
4 July 1996Smoking5.0 acresHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestJETT CANYON
31 July 2011Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBROAD CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Carvers: 8 prospects, 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Silver, Geothermal. 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
Austin ClaimSilver, Zinc, Lead, GoldProspect
Broad Canyon MineGold, Molybdenum, Zinc, Silver, Lead, CopperProspect
Broad Creek ProspectLead, Zinc, Silver, Antimony, Gold, IronPast Producer
Gibraltar Silver Hill Mining Co.Zinc, Lead, Silver, GoldOccurrence1920
Gilbraltar Silver Mining Co.Silver, Lead, Zinc, GoldOccurrence1919
JettTungsten, Silver, GoldProspect
Sergeant PropertyGold, Silver, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Topaz ProspectVanadium, Zinc, Molybdenum, CadmiumProspect
Unnamed Prospect South of Jett CanyonLead, Silver, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceVein
Wall Canyon MineAntimony, Selenium, CopperPast Producer1915

Every working recorded in Nye County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carvers in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 debris flow, 1 flood. 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
August 2023FloodCarvers$500,000SR-376 was washed out at mile marker 62 north of the city of Cavers, NV. Anywhere from 1-4 inches of rain from Tropical Storm Hilary fell across Nye County. Quima Peak Raws, located just 35 miles south of the washout, measured 3.96 inches of rain from the event. SR-376 from Cavers to US-50 has been closed as a result and remains closed indefinitely.
August 2018Debris FlowCarvers$1,500A debris flow from the Broad fire was reported over Fremont Road and approaching Manly Lane in Hadley and Carvers, Nevada.
July 2015HailCarvers-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Darroughs Hot Springs2.3 miles14
Jett (historical)4.6 miles13
Hadley6.2 miles13
Steigmeyer Mill7.4 miles13
Round Mountain7.9 miles13
Jefferson (historical)11.6 miles8
Ophir (historical)12.2 miles14
Van Ness (historical)14.5 miles8

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 CarversAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3307598The 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 859166. 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.