Fort Callville, Nevada

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89040. It lies near Boulder Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Hoover Dam quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fort Callville within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

1886 USGS Saint Thomas quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1893 USGS Saint Thomas quadrangle1:250000
1926 USGS Boulder Canyon quadrangle1:96000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Hoover Dam quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Hoover Dam quadrangle1:24000
1987 USGS Lake Mead quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Hoover Dam quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Fort Callville (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
17 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	HUNGRY
3 July 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	SITE 45
2 July 2017	Smoking	1.0 acres	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	CALLVILLE
11 July 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	CALVILLE
28 June 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	RING
27 June 1994	Natural	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	OUTFIRE 01
26 June 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	QUIETCOVE
21 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	CALVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fort Callville (historical): 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silica. 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
	Dawson Silica Mine	Silica	Occurrence
	Old Pope Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hesse Camp (historical)	3.3 miles	23
West End (historical)	7.1 miles	22
Junction City (historical)	7.4 miles	23
Boulder City	12.0 miles	31
Lake Las Vegas	12.8 miles	25
McKeeversville (historical)	13.3 miles	31
Texas Acres	15.2 miles	32
Rioville (historical)	15.6 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 863773. 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.