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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Pioche quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1886 USGS Pioche quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Dow Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
103 since 1993Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 94 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | SHEEP |
| 7 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | GREY DOME |
| 18 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | NAT OUT TWO |
| 15 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | SR319MM66 |
| 14 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | HUSKER |
| 12 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | LIEN |
| 12 September 2004 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Ely District Office | CDC |
| 10 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | HWY75 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Perlite Deposit | Perlite | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Crestline | $2,000 | Water one and a half feet deep flowed across Highway 319 near the Utah state line. |
| July 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Crestline | - | A BLM Wilderness Ranger saw a tornado touch down briefly in open country. No damage was observed. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horseshoe Bend | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Brown | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Acoma | 8.3 miles | 14 | |
| Crossroads | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Ninemile Rocks | 9.8 miles | 14 | |
| Barclay | 12.3 miles | 14 | |
| Joseco | 12.4 miles | 14 | |
| Islen | 13.9 miles | 14 |
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 Q5184589 | The 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.





