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Dyer, Nevada

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Silver Peak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89010. It stands on McAfee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dyer quadrangle. 232 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,880 feet above sea level.

Dyer within Esmeralda County

Population over time

2 figures

Dyer fell from 259 to 232 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010259
2020232-27 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Dyer: 5 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Clay, Aluminum. 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
Jorgen DepositAluminum, Mercury, SulfurUnknown
Kelly MinesGold, Mercury, Silver, PGEUnknown
Kelly Mines, Inc.Platinum, Silver, Gold, MercuryProspectUnknown
NBMG Sample Site 1256Silver, Copper, Barium-Barite, Vanadium, TungstenOccurrence
NBMG Sample Site 1967Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperOccurrence
Pyramid Ranch ClaimsSilver, Gemstone, MercuryProducerVein
White HillsAluminum, MercuryUnknown
White Phantom ClaimsTungstenOccurrence
HarringtonSilverProspect
President Clay DepositClayOccurrenceSedimentary

Every working recorded in Esmeralda County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dyer in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2015: 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
July 2012LightningDyer$50,000Lightning damaged a cell phone tower.
August 2015Flash FloodDyer$10,000Highway 264 was washed out in several places. The Dyer co-op observer measured 3.07 inches of rain between 4 PM and 9 PM, which set a 24-hour rainfall record for the station.
July 2013Flash FloodDyer$10,000Highway 264 washed out at mile marker 8.
July 2015Flash FloodDyer$2,000Water and debris flowed over Highway 264 between mile markers 12 and 15.
August 2015Flash FloodDyer$1,000Highway 264 was flooded between mile markers 13 and 17.

Every storm recorded in Esmeralda 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
Arlemont (historical)10.8 miles21
The Crossing14.8 miles23
Fish Lake (historical)15.4 miles23
Coyote Hole16.5 miles23
Nivloc16.6 miles23
Stimler (historical)21.2 miles23
Gold Hit21.6 miles21
Oneota (historical)22.1 miles21

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 DyerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3307922The 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 859604. 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.

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.