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Glenn, Nevada

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the McGill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89318. The Survey maps it on the McGill quadrangle.

Glenn within White Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Glenn between 1996 and 2013, burning about 22 acres in total. 8 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
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 August 2003Natural12 acresEly District OfficeBONEYARD
8 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeBASSETT
8 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeMM68
19 August 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSWITCHBACK
15 August 2012Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeKINSEY
14 August 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeHEISER
4 July 2001Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeLOWCOVE
2 July 2012Natural1.0 acresEly District OfficeBASSETT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Glenn: 4 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver. 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
Boundy MillTungstenPast Producer1977
Ray Dar #2Copper, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Red Hills Claims.Silver, GoldOccurrence
Silver OccurrenceSilver, LeadOccurrence
Silver-Lead ProspectSilver, LeadOccurrence

Every working recorded in White Pine County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenn in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2021FloodGlenn-Heavy rain and runoff caused minor flooding. Two inches of mud had to be removed from US Highway 93 north of McGill. This lasted about an hour. The mud flow occurred around mile marker 67 and was about 0.3 miles in length.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindGlenn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White Pine 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
Kent (historical)4.7 miles18
McGill6.2 miles19
Steptoe6.5 miles19
Adverse7.8 miles19
McGill Junction8.0 miles17
Lavon11.1 miles17
Warm Springs11.6 miles11
Melvin (historical)13.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856033. 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.