Franktown, Nevada

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Twaddle-Pedroli Ranchlisted 2000 · 0.4 miles away
• Bowers Mansionlisted 1976 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1891 USGS Carson quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Carson quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1893 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:125000
• 1950 USGS Mt. Rose quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1952 USGS Mt. Rose quadrangle1:62500
• 1957 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1959 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1968 USGS Washoe City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1974 USGS Washoe City quadrangle1:24000
• 1979 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Washoe City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Franktown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,230 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 1 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:

• Ophir City (historical)
• Sundown Town
• Washoe City
• New Washoe City
• Pleasant Valley
• Steamboat

Every fire recorded in Washoe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Franktown: 6 past producers, 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Every working recorded in Washoe County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 859759. 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.