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Cherry Creek, Nevada

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cherry Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89301. It lies in Cherry Creek Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Exchequer Spring quadrangle. It stands 6,130 feet above sea level.

Cherry Creek within White Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Creek between 1996 and 2020, burning about 8,600 acres in total. 15 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
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
9 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresEly District OfficeDOUTRE
9 August 1998Natural1.0 acresEly District OfficeTHERMOPOLY
8 August 2001Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeQUAKEY
5 August 2019Natural1.0 acresEly District OfficeBUNNY FARM
31 August 2012Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeBLUE MOON
30 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined102 acresEly District OfficeCHERRYWOLF
2 August 2004Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeKELLY
11 August 2012Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeCOCOMONGO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Cherry Creek: 37 past producers, 16 occurrences, 8 unknowns, 3 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver. 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
Bennett ProspectAntimonyOccurrence
Box Canyon ClaimsSulfidesOccurrence
Cherry Creek District Mines; Egan Mine AreaSilver, Gold, Tungsten, Copper, Zinc, LeadPast Producer1864, 1941
Cherry Creek Hot SpringUraniumUnknown
Cherry Creek TungstenCopper, Manganese, Silver, TungstenPast Producer1940
Gilligan VeinGold, Silver, LeadPast ProducerVein
Gilligan VeinSilver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Happy #1 ClaimTungsten, AntimonyOccurrence1973
Imperial MineSilver, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Joana MineGold, LeadPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold

Every working recorded in White Pine County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Creek in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
June 2017HailCherry Creek-A report was received via social media of hail roughly the size of quarters near Bald Mountain Mine.
August 2001Flash FloodCherry Creek-White Pine County sheriff reported flash flooding at the intersection of Cherry Creek road and Highway 93.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindCherry Creek-A severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts to 60 mph at Bald Mountain Mine, 30 miles west of Cherry Creek.
August 2014HailCherry Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White Pine 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
Egan (historical)3.8 miles11
Greens11.9 miles9
Melvin (historical)15.9 miles11
Warm Springs17.6 miles11
Centerville (historical)18.3 miles11
Hunter (historical)18.5 miles11
Siegel (historical)19.1 miles11
Stonehouse20.1 miles11

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 Cherry CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2649429The 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 857939. 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.