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Golconda, Nevada

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Golconda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89414. The Survey maps it on the Golconda quadrangle. 182 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,403 feet above sea level.

Golconda within Humboldt County

On record in Golconda

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Golconda fell from 214 to 182 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010214
2020182-32 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Golconda between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,710 acres in total. 10 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 use11
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
5 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeEDEN VLY
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeTOBIN
25 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWinnemucca District Office198
21 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresWinnemucca District OfficeSTANFORD ST
11 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District Office5TH STREET
7 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeHUMCOASST2
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeGOLCONDA
28 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 194

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Golconda: 11 past producers, 7 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 3 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Gold, Manganese, 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
Br ClaimsCopper, Silver, LeadOccurrenceChrysocolla
Golconda Hot Spring, Harris PropertyUranium, ThoriumOccurrenceHot Spring
Golconda Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Golconda MineManganese, TungstenPast Producer1890
Golconda TungtenFluorine-Fluorite, Tungsten, Manganese, IronPast Producer
Horton MineBarium-Barite, Silver, GoldPast Producer
July 4 ClaimCopper, Iron, Silver, ManganeseOccurrenceVein
Kramer Hill MineGold, SilverPast Producer1907, 1908
Kramer Hill MineGold, Silver, Mercury, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Arsenic, AntimonyPlant1907, 1990
NBMG Sample Site 491Barium-Barite, Copper, Antimony, ManganeseOccurrenceBarite, Malachite

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Golconda in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
July 2015Flash FloodGolconda$1,000Humboldt County Sheriff reported water and debris over route 789. Damages are estimated.
May 2017HailGolconda$100Minor hail damage with leaves and small branches down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGolconda-Station (GCRNV), 5.1 miles E Golconda, Elevation 5164 feet.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindGolconda-Station (GCSNV), 5.1 miles ESE Golconda, 5164 feet.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGolconda-no account filed
August 2003HailGolconda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Humboldt 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
Fairview (historical)2.8 miles21
Preble5.1 miles23
Bliss8.2 miles16
Comus9.2 miles16
Adelaide (historical)9.6 miles21
Tule9.8 miles16
Gold Run (historical)9.9 miles21
Iron Point (historical)11.3 miles22

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 GolcondaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478491The 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 856255. 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.