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Currie, Nevada

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the West Wendover census division. The Survey maps it on the Currie quadrangle.

Currie within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1940

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Currie, Nevada
Currie, Nevada
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Currie between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2

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
20 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresElko District OfficeCURRIE
25 August 1994Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeMCDERMITT2
19 August 2020Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeCULVERT 15
1 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreElko District OfficeLEAR
30 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreElko District OfficeCURRY
4 October 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreElko District OfficeCURRIE

Every fire recorded in Elko 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 Currie: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Beryllium. 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
Campbell 6Tungsten, BerylliumOccurrenceBeryl, Powellite, Scheelite

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Currie in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1998Thunderstorm WindCurrie-A severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts to 58 mph at Spruce Mountain, 40 miles southeast of Elko.

Every storm recorded in Elko 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
Goshute (historical)6.8 miles9
Mizpah9.9 miles9
Sprucemont20.7 miles13
Black Forest (historical)21.1 miles13
Dolly Varden22.1 miles13
Decoy31.0 miles9
Elaine (historical)32.7 miles13
Hogan33.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856224. 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.