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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.

Crystal Bay within Washoe County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Crystal 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.

YearPeople Change
2010305
2020337+32 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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

229 since 1992

Regional 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 ceremony79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Smoking32
Natural24
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks2

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
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNevada-Yuba-Placer UnitCUTTHROAT
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBEAVER 3
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitBEAVER
6 September 1997Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitCANTERBURY
5 September 1992Smokingunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitPATH
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitNATIONAL
3 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitGRIFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washoe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gold ProspectGoldOccurrence
Unnamed MineGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Washoe County

Storms near this place

7 since 2017

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Flash FloodCrystal 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 2024Heavy RainCrystal 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 2023Heavy RainCrystal 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 2019Heavy RainCrystal 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 2018Heavy RainCrystal 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 2018Heavy RainCrystal 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 2017FloodCrystal 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.

Every storm recorded in Washoe 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
Incline Village2.4 miles27
Tyrolian Village4.6 miles27
Franktown9.2 miles31
Ophir City (historical)10.5 miles31
Bronco (historical)11.9 miles29
Sundown Town12.1 miles31
Washoe City12.2 miles31
New Washoe City13.0 miles31

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 BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5191124The 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.