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Gold Acres, 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. The Survey maps it on the Tenabo quadrangle. It stands 5,417 feet above sea level.

Gold Acres 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Gold Acres between 2005 and 2018, burning about 5 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
29 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeTURQUOISE
22 August 2005Natural2.0 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeHILL TOP
12 August 2012Natural1.0 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeUTAH MINE
25 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeCORTEZ
9 May 2013Naturalunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficePIVOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lander County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Gold Acres: 43 past producers, 8 occurrences, 8 producers, 4 unknowns. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Gemstone, Silver, Copper. 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
Big ChiefGold, Silver, Tungsten, Molybdenum, Copper, LeadPast ProducerPowellite, Scheelite
Blue Ridge MineGemstone, Semiprecious GemstoneProducer
ClipperSilver, Lead, Copper, GoldPast Producer
ClipperLead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Cortez Canyon UraniunUraniumOccurrence
Crescent Valley PlacersGold, Silver, TungstenPast Producer1905, 1916, 1940
GeldingGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Gold Acres DepositGold, Tungsten, Copper, Molybdenum, Antimony, Arsenic, Mercury, Thallium, Lead, ZincProducer1925, 1935
Gold Acres DepositGold, Tungsten, Copper, Antimony, Arsenic, Mercury, Thallium, Lead, Zinc, MolybdenumProducer1920, 1935, 1996
Gold PanGold, Silver, Copper, LeadPast ProducerMalachite

Every working recorded in Lander County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gold Acres in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 2013Flash FloodGold Acres$3,000Law enforcement reported that flash flooding washed out sections of Greystone mine road. Property damage is estimated.
September 2023Flash FloodGold Acres-Storms training over the same area led to areal flooding over SR-305 in Lander County. The road was temporarily closed between MM 60 to MM 40.
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Gold Acres-A tornado was photographed near Horse Mountain. A storm survey was conducted but no damage was found. However survey efforts were hampered by steep and rugged terrain.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Frisbie (historical)2.2 miles14
Gold Quartz3.8 miles14
Mill Gulch (historical)4.4 miles14
Tenabo4.7 miles14
Lander (historical)5.1 miles14
Bullion (historical)5.6 miles14
Mud Springs (historical)8.5 miles13
Cortez10.8 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q96151852The 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 845475. 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.