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Daveytown, Nevada

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1882 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Winnemucca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89445. The Survey maps it on the Awakening Peak quadrangle.

Daveytown within Humboldt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Daveytown between 1996 and 2018, burning about 10,703 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 September 1996Natural40 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMUD SPRING
4 August 1999Natural100 acresWinnemucca District OfficeDAVY TOWN
17 August 2004Natural27 acresWinnemucca District OfficeSLEEPER
12 July 2002Natural10,140 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMUD SPRING
16 June 2014Natural31 acresWinnemucca District OfficeDAVEYTOWN
23 May 2007Debris and open burning321 acresWinnemucca District OfficeSILVER STATE
24 March 2018Recreation and ceremony44 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMAYDAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Daveytown: 15 past producers, 8 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver. 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
Alabama MineSilver, GoldPast ProducerVein
Alabama MineGold, Lead, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Daveytown MillGold, Silver, LeadPast Producer1982
Humboldt MineGold, Silver, Lead, ZincPast Producer1937
Havalau Gulch MineGold, SilverProducerVein
HumboldtGold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
May Day MineGold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Scheelite MineTungstenProspect
Scheelite ProspectTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Havalau Gulch MineGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daveytown in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindDaveytown$3,000Thunderstorm winds gusting up to 81 mph flattened a green house and blew the roof off a barn.

Every storm recorded in Humboldt 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
Awakening3.0 miles16
Amos (historical)8.2 miles16
Paradise Hill11.3 miles16
Willow Point (historical)15.8 miles16
Barrett Springs (historical)17.6 miles14
Laurel (historical)18.9 miles14
Orovada20.0 miles16
Weso22.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856009. 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.