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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.

Echo Bay within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 1994

Regional 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
Fireworks3
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 September 2011Naturalunder an acreLake Mead National Recreation AreaUPPER
28 August 1996Other causesunder an acreLake Mead National Recreation AreaJABIP 2
4 July 2010Fireworksunder an acreLake Mead National Recreation AreaSTEWARTS
20 July 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Mead National Recreation AreaFIN
2 July 2007Fireworks3.3 acresLake Mead National Recreation AreaROGER SPRINGS
7 June 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Mead National Recreation AreaECHO BAY 2
26 June 1995Naturalunder an acreLake Mead National Recreation AreaBOAT HOUSE
25 June 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLake Mead National Recreation AreaSITE 32

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fifty-Fifty GroupUraniumOccurrence
Black Salt MineSaltPast Producer
Calico Salt MineSaltPast Producer
Salt MineSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEcho Bay$10,000Thunderstorm 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 2016HailEcho Bay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Stewarts Point5.0 miles23
Rioville (historical)11.1 miles23
Saint Thomas (historical)11.2 miles22
Copper City (historical)11.4 miles21
Gold Butte (historical)12.2 miles21
Lost City (historical)12.6 miles23
Kaolin (historical)13.7 miles21
Overton16.2 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 Echo BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22060812The 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.