Denio Junction, Nevada

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.

• 1886 USGS Disaster quadrangle1:250000
• 1893 USGS Disaster quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1954 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Denio quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Denio quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
• 1990 USGS Wilder Creek Ranch quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Denio Junction between 1995 and 2019, burning about 3,270 acres in total. 14 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Denio
• Overton (historical)
• Rose Creek
• Adelaide (historical)
• Awakening
• Cañon Creek Station (historical)

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Denio Junction: 8 occurrences, 7 past producers, 6 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856012. 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.