Dinner Station, Nevada

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Elko census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89801. It stands on Sixteenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dinner Station quadrangle. It stands 5,961 feet above sea level.

Dinner Station within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Dinner Station quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Double Mtn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Dinner Station between 1994 and 2017, burning about 13,477 acres in total. 8 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
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Elko District Office	DINNER
1 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Elko District Office	SNORKEL
9 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Elko District Office	ADOBE
30 August 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	YANKEE BILL
28 July 2010	Natural	689 acres	Elko District Office	FOX SPRINGS
24 July 2004	Natural	1.0 acres	Elko District Office	BUN
16 July 2007	Natural	1,500 acres	Elko District Office	SOUTH DINNER
16 July 1994	Natural	11,188 acres	Elko District Office	LONE MTN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dinner Station: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dinner Station Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Fox Creek Ranch	Molybdenum	Occurrence

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Osino	15.9 miles	11
Coin	17.0 miles	11
Beaver (historical)	17.8 miles	9
Ryndon	18.0 miles	11
Ballous Addition	19.2 miles	12
Elko	19.2 miles	12
Elburz	22.5 miles	11
Tuscarora	23.9 miles	10

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 Dinner Station	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5278414	The 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 845151. 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.