Crescent, Nevada

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clark census division. It stands on Big Tiger Wash. The Survey maps it on the Crescent Peak quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Crescent within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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.

1910 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000
1912 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1942 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000
1947 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Crescent Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Crescent Peak quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Crescent (historical) between 1994 and 2014, burning about 109 acres in total. 6 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
27 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	NIP
24 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	WEE THUMP RD
23 August 2006	Natural	40 acres	Southern Nevada District Office	CRESCENT PEAK
3 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	164MM8
20 July 2004	Natural	5.8 acres	Southern Nevada District Office	NEW YORK
12 July 2008	Natural	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	SEARCHLIGHT
4 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Desert District	SURVEY
29 June 2006	Natural	25 acres	Southern Nevada District Office	CRESCENT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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 Crescent (historical): 29 prospects, 23 past producers, 11 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper. 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
B. T. Prospect	Gold, Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Blue Crystal Prospect	Gold, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver	Prospect
Budget Group	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Budget Group	Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead	Past Producer
Crescent Mine	Manganese, Gold, Silver, Lead	Prospect
Cumberland Group	Gold, Lead, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper	Past Producer
Cumberland Group	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Molybdenum	Past Producer	Vein
Double Standard Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Tetrahedrite
Gingerload	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Platinum, Palladium, Iridium, Osmium, Rhodium	Occurrence	Acanthite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Gold, Iridosmine, Sphalerite
Helen Prospect	Zinc	Prospect

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Morgantown (historical)	5.1 miles	26
Searchlight	13.8 miles	30
Primm	14.1 miles	27
Roach	14.1 miles	27
Emerald City (historical)	16.5 miles	30
Camp Sunrise (historical)	16.6 miles	30
Borax	17.7 miles	27
Cal-Nev-Ari	20.2 miles	30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 854415. 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.