Coyote, Nevada

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Pioche census division. The Survey maps it on the Coyote Spring quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Coyote 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
1971 USGS Coyote Spring quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Wilson Creek Range quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Coyote (historical) between 2006 and 2012, burning about 500 acres in total. 2 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	2

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
1 July 2006	Natural	500 acres	Ely District Office	HOMESTEAD
1 June 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	CASTLETON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Eccles

Every fire 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
Bristol Well (historical)	10.6 miles	10
Bristol	13.4 miles	10
Tempest (historical)	13.4 miles	10
Jackrabbit (historical)	14.9 miles	10
Big Trees	18.5 miles	17
Highland (historical)	18.8 miles	17
Mendha	19.3 miles	17
Caselton	21.6 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 857705. 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.