Corwin, Nevada

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eureka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89316. It lies near Davis Canyon. The Survey maps it on the West of Railroad Pass quadrangle.

Corwin within Eureka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1934 USGS Jiggs quadrangle1:125000
1937 USGS Jiggs quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Railroad Pass quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS West of Railroad Pass quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Ruby Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Corwin between 1996 and 2020, burning about 7 acres in total. 3 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	3

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
19 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	MAU
10 September 1996	Natural	6.0 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	DIAMOND
9 July 2004	Natural	1.0 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	RAILROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eureka County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Corwin: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Silver, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Diamond Copper Mine	Copper, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Gosson	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Standard Copper	Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Copper Prospect	Copper	Unknown
Garcia Prospect	Copper	Occurrence
Mulligan Prospect	Copper	Occurrence
Unnamed Workings E. of Diamond Pk	Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Eureka 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
Birch (historical)	7.0 miles	13
Romano (historical)	11.1 miles	19
White (historical)	15.6 miles	19
Alpha	15.6 miles	15
Shannon	16.9 miles	15
Mineral	18.5 miles	15
Diamond City (historical)	19.7 miles	13
Blackburn	20.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856637. 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.