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Crestline, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Pioche census division. The Survey maps it on the Dow Mountain quadrangle. It stands 5,988 feet above sea level.

Crestline within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

103 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Crestline between 1993 and 2018, burning about 3,482 acres in total. 94 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
Natural94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSHEEP
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeGREY DOME
18 September 2008Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeNAT OUT TWO
15 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeSR319MM66
14 September 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeHUSKER
12 September 2011Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeLIEN
12 September 2004Natural1.0 acresEly District OfficeCDC
10 September 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeHWY75

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crestline: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Perlite. 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
Unnamed Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crestline in 2 storm reports in 2012: 1 tornado, 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
August 2012Flash FloodCrestline$2,000Water one and a half feet deep flowed across Highway 319 near the Utah state line.
July 2012Tornado (EF0)Crestline-A BLM Wilderness Ranger saw a tornado touch down briefly in open country. No damage was observed.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Horseshoe Bend1.4 miles14
Brown3.9 miles14
Acoma8.3 miles14
Crossroads9.6 miles14
Ninemile Rocks9.8 miles14
Barclay12.3 miles14
Joseco12.4 miles14
Islen13.9 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q5184589The 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 859420. 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.