Fair Play, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89833. It stands on Baxter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ruby Valley School quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fair Play within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1935 USGS Halleck quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Lamoille quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1965 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Elko quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Ruby Valley School quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Fair Play (historical) between 1994 and 2012, burning about 2,642 acres in total. 6 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	6

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 2012	Natural	1,015 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	LUTZ
5 August 1999	Natural	1,621 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	BAXTER
20 August 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge	NDF 01
27 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	not named
19 July 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	JOHN NEFF
16 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	FRANKLIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fair Play (historical): 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal. 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
	Sulphur Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown

Every working recorded in Elko 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
Schley (historical)	4.0 miles	14
Arthur	13.5 miles	12
Lamoille	13.6 miles	15
Voight (historical)	13.7 miles	12
Rock House	15.0 miles	12
Pleasant Valley	15.0 miles	10
Brennen Ranch	15.2 miles	10
Secret (historical)	15.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 862965. 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.