Cave Valley, Nevada

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Pioche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89043. It lies near Cottonwood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Parker Station quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cave Valley within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1956 USGS Lund quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Lund quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Parker Station quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Garrison quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cave Valley (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 193 acres in total. 20 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	20

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
9 September 1999	Natural	119 acres	Ely District Office	RAINBOW
10 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	SEEDING
10 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	CAVE VAL
1 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	GRAHAM SPRING
4 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	NORTH SPR
29 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	SHEEP CREEK
27 August 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	Ely District Office	MACDONALD
2 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	CAVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Cave Valley (historical): 6 prospects, 4 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Tungsten, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ad Prospect	Tungsten, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect
Cappy's Diggins	Silver, Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite	Prospect	Underground
Cave Valley	Kaolin	Occurrence
Cave Valley Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Gold, Vanadium, Clay, Arsenic	Past Producer	1921, 1922
Cave Valley Mine	Silver, Copper, Lead, Uranium	Past Producer
Eagle Rock Mine	Antimony, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Tungsten, Iron, Manganese, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	1927
Jerry Claims	Copper, Zinc, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	1916
Lanter Mine	Tungsten, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead	Prospect
Schwartz Canyon Deposits	Tungsten, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum, Iron	Past Producer	1869
Streator Group	Silver, Lead, Copper	Prospect

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Montezuma (historical)	5.2 miles	5
Patterson (historical)	6.7 miles	5
Geyser (historical)	9.4 miles	5
Pony Springs	24.7 miles	5
Atlanta	27.9 miles	5
Wilson Creek (historical)	28.7 miles	5
Karo (historical)	34.9 miles	5
Bristol Well (historical)	37.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 851014. 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.