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Deeth, Nevada

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89801. It stands on East Channel Marys River. The Survey maps it on the Deeth quadrangle. It stands 5,341 feet above sea level.

Deeth within Elko County

On record in Deeth

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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,

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.

Weighing Station, Deeth Siding, at O'Neil Basin Road and Nevada State Route 230, Deeth, Elko County, NV
Weighing Station, Deeth Siding, at O'Neil Basin Road and Nevada State Route 230, Deeth, Elko County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Deeth between 1999 and 2020, burning about 25,740 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreElko County Fire Protection District333
1 September 2003Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeDEETH EXIT
6 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreElko District OfficeDEETH
15 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresElko District OfficeSECRET PASS
14 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresElko District Office331 COMMAND
12 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresElko District OfficeI80MM330
1 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreElko County Fire Protection DistrictSTARR
9 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined342 acresElko District OfficeGOPHER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 Deeth: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Deeth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deeth in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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
April 2006FloodDeeth$20,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDeeth-Station (UP011) Deeth2 Upr, Elevation 5356 feet.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindDeeth-Station (UP011) 1 ENE Deeth, Elevation 5356 feet.
August 2014Flash FloodDeeth-Multiple areas of flash flooding were reported along country roads north of Deeth with water 1 to 2 feet deep in places making roads impassable.
August 2014Flash FloodDeeth-Heavy rain caused flooding in dry washes and across roadways.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindDeeth-no account filed

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
Tulasco9.2 miles10
Welcome9.3 miles10
Halleck12.3 miles12
Beaver (historical)13.6 miles9
Alazon13.8 miles10
Elburz15.4 miles11
Wells16.8 miles10
Secret (historical)16.8 miles12

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 DeethAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1827214The 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 845424. 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.