Echo Bay, Nevada
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89040. It stands on Calico Wash. The Survey maps it on the Echo Bay quadrangle. It stands 1,270 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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 Saint Thomas quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1893 USGS Saint Thomas quadrangle1:250000
- 1926 USGS Bonelli quadrangle1:96000
- 1953 USGS Overton Beach quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Echo Bay quadrangle1:24000
- 1987 USGS Lake Mead quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Echo Bay between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area | UPPER |
| 28 August 1996 | Other causes | under an acre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area | JABIP 2 |
| 4 July 2010 | Fireworks | under an acre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area | STEWARTS |
| 20 July 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area | FIN |
| 2 July 2007 | Fireworks | 3.3 acres | Lake Mead National Recreation Area | ROGER SPRINGS |
| 7 June 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area | ECHO BAY 2 |
| 26 June 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area | BOAT HOUSE |
| 25 June 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area | SITE 32 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Echo Bay: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fifty-Fifty Group | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Black Salt Mine | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Calico Salt Mine | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Salt Mine | Salt | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Echo Bay in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Echo Bay | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged the Echo Bay courtesy dock.||This is the same event in which a total of 23 boats were swamped on Lakes Mead, Mohave, and Havasu. Those are documented in Arizona Storm Data. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Echo Bay | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewarts Point | 5.0 miles | 23 | |
| Rioville (historical) | 11.1 miles | 23 | |
| Saint Thomas (historical) | 11.2 miles | 22 | |
| Copper City (historical) | 11.4 miles | 21 | |
| Gold Butte (historical) | 12.2 miles | 21 | |
| Lost City (historical) | 12.6 miles | 23 | |
| Kaolin (historical) | 13.7 miles | 21 | |
| Overton | 16.2 miles | 21 |
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 Echo Bay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22060812 | 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 849519. 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.
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.









