Frisbie, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Battle Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89820. The Survey maps it on the Tenabo quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Frisbie within Lander County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1949 USGS Crescent Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Crescent Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Tenabo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Crescent Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Frisbie (historical) between 2007 and 2018, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	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
29 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	TURQUOISE
27 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	VALLEY BOTTOM
8 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	4.4 acres	Elko District Office	DANN RANCH
25 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	CORTEZ
9 May 2013	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	PIVOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lander County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Frisbie (historical): 38 past producers, 8 occurrences, 8 producers, 7 unknowns. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gemstone, Silver, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Big Chief	Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	Powellite, Scheelite
Blue Ridge Mine	Gemstone, Semiprecious Gemstone	Producer
Cortez Canyon Uraniun	Uranium	Occurrence
Crescent Valley Placers	Gold, Silver, Tungsten	Past Producer	1905, 1916, 1940
Gelding	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Gold Acres Deposit	Gold, Tungsten, Copper, Molybdenum, Antimony, Arsenic, Mercury, Thallium, Lead, Zinc	Producer	1925, 1935
Gold Acres Deposit	Gold, Tungsten, Copper, Antimony, Arsenic, Mercury, Thallium, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum	Producer	1920, 1935, 1996
Gold Pan	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	Malachite
Gold Quartz	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	1910
Lander Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lander 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
Gold Acres	2.2 miles	14
Gold Quartz	2.6 miles	14
Mill Gulch (historical)	2.8 miles	14
Tenabo	3.0 miles	14
Lander (historical)	4.2 miles	14
Bullion (historical)	4.5 miles	14
Mud Springs (historical)	8.1 miles	13
Cortez	10.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 857572. 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.