Clifton, Nevada

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 11 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Nevada Central Turntablelisted 2003 · 0.2 miles away
• Lander County High Schoollisted 2000 · 0.3 miles away
• Stokes Castlelisted 2003 · 0.3 miles away
• Austin Cemeterylisted 2003 · 0.4 miles away
• Austin Historic Districtlisted 1971 · 0.5 miles away
• Austin City Halllisted 2003 · 0.6 miles away
• St. Augustine's Catholic Churchlisted 2003 · 0.6 miles away
• Austin Masonic and Odd Fellows Halllisted 2003 · 0.6 miles away
• Lander County Courthouselisted 2003 · 0.7 miles away
• Austin Methodist Churchlisted 2003 · 0.7 miles away
• St. George's Episcopal Churchlisted 2003 · 0.7 miles away

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 Austin quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Clifton (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,064 acres in total. 15 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
• Canon City
• Yankee Blade
• Amador (historical)
• Buckingham Camp
• Dewitt Mill

Every fire recorded in Lander County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 190 workings within 5 miles of Clifton (historical): 160 past producers, 13 unknowns, 11 prospects, 4 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Uranium, Silver, Gold. 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 846982. 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.