Dyke, Nevada

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Summit Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89445. It lies in Dyke Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Dyke Canyon quadrangle.

Dyke within Humboldt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

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
1965 USGS Duffer Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1979 USGS Denio quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
1990 USGS Dyke Canyon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Dyke between 1996 and 2018, burning about 72,300 acres in total. 4 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	4

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
4 August 1999	Natural	72,179 acres	Winnemucca District Office	DENIO COM
14 August 1996	Natural	120 acres	Winnemucca District Office	WOOTER
24 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	CHERRY CREEK
22 June 2000	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	PINE F

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Dyke: 8 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dyke Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Hapgood Silver Mine and Yellow Dog Prospects	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Arsenic	Prospect	Chalcopyrite
Hill Antimony Mine	Antimony	Unknown
NBMG Sample Site 2966 and 2967	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
NBMG Sample Site 2966, 2967	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Arsenic, Tungsten	Past Producer	Vein
Oklahoma Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Iron	Past Producer	1914
Pure Gold No. 1 Claim	Gold, Silver, Copper, Tungsten	Past Producer	1900
Saddle Prospect	Tungsten, Molybdenum, Copper	Past Producer	1954
Bobby Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Occurrence	1925
Golden Gull	Gold, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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
Quinn River Crossing	7.3 miles	19
Varyville (historical)	13.7 miles	16
Happy Creek Station	13.8 miles	17
Denio Junction	26.2 miles	19
Overton (historical)	27.0 miles	19
Denio	28.8 miles	19
Red Butte (historical)	32.2 miles	16
Awakening	38.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856018. 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.