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Etna, Nevada

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Caliente census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89008. It lies near Hardy Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Caliente quadrangle.

Etna within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Etna between 1992 and 2020, burning about 875 acres in total. 117 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
Natural117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeONE
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeNORADO
4 September 2017Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeKERSHAW
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeBUCKBOARD
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeNEWMAN
2 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresEly District OfficeSTINE
2 September 1995Natural1.0 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeOAKSPRINGS
16 September 1995Natural8.0 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeBUCKBOARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Etna: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Silver, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Silver, Gold. 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
Caliente Perlite MillPerlitePlant
EasterGold, Lead, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Easter ProjectSilver, Gold, Iron, Manganese, MercuryPast Producer1912, 1930
M. K. Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer1975
Taylor MineGold, Iron, SilverPast ProducerGold

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Etna in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2015: 2 flash flood. 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 2012Flash FloodEtna$30,000Part of Highway 93 was washed out.
July 2015Flash FloodEtna$2,000Rocks and debris washed onto Highway 93 at mile marker 86 near Caliente Summit.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Kershaw (historical)3.6 miles15
Stine4.2 miles16
Caliente5.2 miles15
Strawberry Hill5.4 miles15
Indian Cove8.0 miles14
Boyd8.1 miles16
Yoacham (historical)8.2 miles14
Eccles8.5 miles14

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 EtnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5404683The 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 856241. 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.