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Garnet, Nevada

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Clark census division. The Survey maps it on the Dry Lake quadrangle. It stands 2,228 feet above sea level.

Garnet within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

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 Garnet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,058 acres in total. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Firearms and explosives use4
Smoking2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 September 1992Smokingunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeI15M65
1 August 2020Firearms and explosives use14 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeMUDDY MTN
8 July 1995Natural1,020 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeGOLDBUTTE2
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeBLUE RIBBON
27 July 2020Firearms and explosives useunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCOPPER
27 July 2020Firearms and explosives useunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeGARNET
13 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeI1566CLARK
13 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeI1567CLARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Garnet: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Silica, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Apex DepositSilicaOccurrence
Apex Limestone Quarry & PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Wallboard PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garnet in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016Flash FloodGarnet$1,000Mud and debris were on Interstate 15 at Exit 64.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGarnet-no account filed
August 2022HailGarnet-no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindGarnet-no account filed
August 2018HailGarnet-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Arrolime3.3 miles21
Dry Lake4.9 miles21
Apex5.1 miles21
Dike9.6 miles23
Crystal (historical)9.7 miles20
Lovell11.3 miles23
Jungletown (historical)12.4 miles23
Valley13.2 miles23

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on GarnetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q111033690The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 845843. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.