Crystal Bay, Nevada
32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Incline Village census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89402. The Survey maps it on the Kings Beach quadrangle. 337 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,375 feet above sea level.
On record in Crystal Bay
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Cal-Vada Lodge Hotellisted 1994
Withers Log Houselisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresCrystal Bay grew from 305 to 337 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 305 | |
| 2020 | 337 | +32 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 32 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.
- 1891 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
- 1932 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:96000
- 1940 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Kings Beach quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Tahoe quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Chico quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Truckee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Kings Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
229 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Bay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,227 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 4 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 79 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 48 |
| Smoking | 32 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit | CUTTHROAT |
| 8 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | BEAVER 3 |
| 7 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | BEAVER |
| 6 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | CANTERBURY |
| 5 September 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | not named |
| 4 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | PATH |
| 4 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | NATIONAL |
| 3 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit | GRIFF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Crystal Bay: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Prospect | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Mine | Gold | Prospect |
Storms near this place
7 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal Bay in 7 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 5 heavy rain, 1 flood, 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 2025 | Flash Flood | Crystal Bay | - | Flooding was reported throughout Incline Village, with multiple reports of closed roads. Upwards of 2.22 inches of rain had fallen over the area. |
| November 2024 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Bay | - | A trained Spotter located 1.0 mi NNW of Incline Village, NV, and a COCORAHS station (NV-WH-74 Reno) located 3.0 mi E of Verdi, NV, reported 24hr rainfall storm totals of 0.60 inches, and 0.42 inches respectively. |
| November 2023 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Bay | - | A CoCoRahs station (NV-WH-161-Incline Village) located 1.3 mi S of Crystal Bay, CA, and a CO-OP observer station (INVN2) located in 1.2 mi E of Incline Village, NV, reported 24 hour rainfall storm totals of 0.60 inches and 0.55 inches respectively. |
| December 2019 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Bay | - | Mesonet station EW6293 1 mile southwest of Crystal Bay reported 1.75 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period from 6 December 2015PST to 8 December 2015PST at an elevation of 6302 feet MSL. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Bay | - | Mesonet station KNXN2, 1 mile north of Incline Village (elevation 7568 feet) reported 1.59 inches of rainfall during a 3-hour period from 12 July 1519PST to 1819PST. |
| July 2018 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Bay | - | A trained weather spotter 1 mile north-northwest of Incline Village reported 0.57 inches of rainfall in a 1-hour period from 12 July 1756PST to 1856PST. |
| February 2017 | Flood | Crystal Bay | - | Twelve to 16 inches of water was running over Mt Rose Highway in the Tahoe Meadows area (near the highway summit) on the morning of the 8th. The highway was closed between Incline Village and the summit until the afternoon of the 9th due to the flooding. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incline Village | 2.4 miles | 27 | |
| Tyrolian Village | 4.6 miles | 27 | |
| Franktown | 9.2 miles | 31 | |
| Ophir City (historical) | 10.5 miles | 31 | |
| Bronco (historical) | 11.9 miles | 29 | |
| Sundown Town | 12.1 miles | 31 | |
| Washoe City | 12.2 miles | 31 | |
| New Washoe City | 13.0 miles | 31 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Crystal Bay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5191124 | 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 859430. 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.










