Egan, Nevada

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cherry Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89301. It stands on Egan Peak. The Survey maps it on the Egan Canyon quadrangle. It stands 6,348 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Egan within White Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Ely quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Egan Canyon quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Kern Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Egan (historical) between 1996 and 2020, burning about 8,630 acres in total. 12 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	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
5 August 2019	Natural	30 acres	Ely District Office	MUSTANG HILL
31 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	BLUE MOON
30 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	102 acres	Ely District Office	CHERRYWOLF
24 August 1999	Natural	15 acres	Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge	BLM 06
24 August 1999	Natural	30 acres	Ely District Office	BIG ROCK
11 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	COCOMONGO
27 July 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Ely District Office	CHERRY CREEK
22 July 2020	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	EGAN CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Egan (historical): 24 past producers, 11 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver. 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
Bennett Prospect	Antimony	Occurrence
Box Canyon Claims	Sulfides	Occurrence
Cherry Creek District Mines; Egan Mine Area	Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Copper, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	1864, 1941
Cherry Creek Tungsten	Copper, Manganese, Silver, Tungsten	Past Producer	1940
Gilligan Vein	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer	Vein
Gilligan Vein	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Happy #1 Claim	Tungsten, Antimony	Occurrence	1973
Joanna Mine	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Mary Anne	Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead	Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Scheelite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Mary Anne Mine	Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead	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
Cherry Creek	3.8 miles	11
Melvin (historical)	14.5 miles	11
Hunter (historical)	15.2 miles	11
Greens	15.7 miles	9
Warm Springs	16.0 miles	11
Centerville (historical)	19.1 miles	11
Siegel (historical)	19.9 miles	11
Ruby Hill (historical)	20.9 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q92207819

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 858269. 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.