Douglas, Nevada

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Lund census division. The Survey maps it on the Douglas quadrangle.

Douglas within White Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1956 USGS Lund quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Lund quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Douglas quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Duckwater quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Douglas between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,678 acres in total. 38 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	38
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
6 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	DOUGLAS
12 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	CLUSTER
11 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	PEANUTS
29 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	DOUGLAS
29 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	WHAM
28 August 1998	Natural	5.0 acres	Ely District Office	WINDMILL
27 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	HOT SPRING
27 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	PADILLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine 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 Douglas: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite. 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
	Chester	Magnesite	Occurrence
	Windous Deposit	Magnesite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White Pine 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
Stockville (historical)	5.2 miles	6
Preston	6.0 miles	7
Barnes (historical)	6.7 miles	6
Lund	7.2 miles	6
Ruppes Place	8.2 miles	6
Willow Grove	13.4 miles	15
Ward (historical)	21.1 miles	16
Taylor (historical)	28.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 859547. 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.