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Delamar, Nevada

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Caliente census division. It lies near Lookout Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Delamar quadrangle.

Delamar within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Delamar between 1993 and 2012, burning about 137 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Fireworks1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
11 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresEly District OfficeDELMAR
3 August 1993Natural12 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeBLYTH
28 July 2009Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeNAT OUT FOURTEEN
24 July 2006Natural2.0 acresEly District OfficeSADDLE
21 July 1998Natural5.0 acresEly District OfficeSOUTH
19 July 2002Natural8.0 acresEly District OfficeCEDAR WASH
17 July 2006Natural88 acresEly District OfficeMONKEY WRENCH
11 July 2011Natural7.0 acresEly District OfficeDELAMAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Delamar: 16 past producers, 16 occurrences, 12 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper, 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
100 Foot Inclined ShaftCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
April Fool MineGold, Silver, Copper, Bismuth, AntimonyPast Producer1892
April Fool MineGold, Copper, Bismuth, Antimony, SilverPast Producer
Culverwell MineGold, Copper, Bismuth, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1932, 1933
Delamar MineGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Delamar MineGold, Silver, Copper, IronProducer1890, 1891, 1930
Delamar ZincZinc, Lead, Silver, Manganese, Iron, Barium-Barite, Copper, Strontium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, CadmiumOccurrenceSmithsonite
Denton Summit WorkingsTungsten, Gold, SilverOccurrenceScheelite
Denton Summit WorkingsTungsten, GoldProspect
Flagstaff Tunnel TunnelGold, Barium-Barite, IronPast Producer1898

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Ferguson (historical)0.3 miles16
Helene1.6 miles16
Stine9.9 miles16
Boyd10.8 miles16
Etna12.5 miles15
Elgin14.4 miles16
Kershaw (historical)16.0 miles15
Caliente17.4 miles15

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 DelamarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5253095The 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 857958. 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.