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Davis Station, Nevada

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Silver Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89447. The Survey maps it on the Silver Springs South quadrangle.

Davis Station within Lyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Davis Station between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,113 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
3 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCarson City District OfficeWEEKS
4 July 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreCarson City District OfficeBIA4
28 July 2017Natural10 acresCarson City District OfficeCLEAVER
22 July 2018Natural23 acresCarson City District OfficeDESERT MOUNTAIN
19 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarson City District OfficeADRIAN
16 July 2010Natural1.0 acresCarson City District OfficeRAMSEY
9 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined94 acresCarson City District OfficeCENTROID
4 June 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreStillwater National Wildlife RefugeGHIGLIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Davis Station: 4 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Montmorillonite, Diatomite. 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
Jupiter Bleaching ClayMontmorillonitePast Producer
Weeks DepositDiatomiteProspect
Momi #7 MineGoldPast Producer
Section 13 AditsGoldProspectVein
Churchill Butte MineTungstenPast Producer1941
Mountain View GroupTungstenProspect
Ruth MineTungstenPast ProducerScheelite

Every working recorded in Lyon 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
Bucklands Station (historical)2.1 miles22
Marshland (historical)2.3 miles22
Weeks (historical)2.4 miles22
Churchill3.5 miles22
Thompson (historical)8.2 miles21
Ramsey Station8.9 miles22
Nevada Station (historical)9.2 miles22
Silver Springs9.4 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856629. 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.