Fletcher, Nevada

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.

• 1909 USGS Hawthorne quadrangle1:250000
• 1911 USGS Hawthorne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1915 USGS Hawthorne quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1962 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Excelsior Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fletcher between 1993 and 2012, burning about 209 acres in total. 9 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Esmeralda (historical)
• Aurora (historical)
• Del Monte
• Coryville (historical)
• Kinkaid
• Lucky Boy (historical)

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Fletcher: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 3 plants, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Mineral County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 859726. 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.