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Currant, Nevada

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Duckwater census division. The Survey maps it on the Currant quadrangle. It stands 5,177 feet above sea level.

Currant within Nye County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Currant between 1992 and 2020, burning under an acre in total. 2 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
Natural2

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
4 August 1992Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeHIGHWAY
22 July 2020Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeNAT OUT TWO

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Currant: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Magnesite, Gold, Uranium. 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
A & O Company Clay DepositKaolinPast ProducerAlunite, Kaolinite
Denise ClaimGold, UraniumPast Producer1976
El Padre MineStone, DimensionPast Producer
El Padre MineVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
SnowballMagnesiteOccurrenceMagnesite
Zeolite DepositZeolitesOccurrenceAnalcime
Earth Resources Claim BlockGoldOccurrence1979
Gold Bearing Ledge GroupGoldPast Producer
Thor GroupUraniumOccurrence1954
Thor GroupUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Nye County

Storms near this place

9 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Currant in 9 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCurrant-Outflow wind gusts from collapsing thunderstorms produced strong gusty winds over Currant Creek RAWS (CCRN2).
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCurrant-Station (CCRN2) Currant Creek, Elevation 5750 ft.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCurrant-Station (CCRN2) Currant Creek, Elevation 5759 ft.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCurrant-Station (CCRN2) Currant Creek Raws, Elevation 5750 feet.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCurrant-Station (SEVN2) Seven Mile Raws, Elevation 7725 feet.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCurrant-Station (SEVN2) Seven Mile Raws, Elevation 7725 feet.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCurrant-Station (CCRN2) Currant Creek, Elevation 5760 feet.
September 2013Flash FloodCurrant-Law enforcement reported flooding at the Health Department Building in Duckwater. Debris from flooding made state route 379 impassable between mile marker 4 and 6.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindCurrant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nye 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
Allred (historical)5.9 miles8
Gold Point (historical)8.5 miles10
Duckwater18.3 miles8
Lockes20.5 miles8
Grant City (historical)22.7 miles6
White River (historical)24.0 miles7
Bull Fork27.6 miles12
Troy (historical)28.0 miles6

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 CurrantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306195The 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 856007. 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.