Goldbud, Nevada

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Imlay census division. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Goldbud within Pershing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1931 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000
1935 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Sulphur quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Eugene Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Goldbud (historical) between 1996 and 2018, burning about 2,919 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5

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
4 August 1999	Natural	2,887 acres	Winnemucca District Office	KAMMA
4 July 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Winnemucca District Office	ROSEBUD
4 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	QUARRY 2
15 July 1996	Natural	25 acres	Winnemucca District Office	ROSEBUD
22 May 2018	Natural	5.6 acres	Winnemucca District Office	WILD ROSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pershing 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 Goldbud (historical): 36 past producers, 15 prospects, 7 producers, 6 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur, Mercury, Gold, Silver. 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
Barrel Springs Placers	Mercury, Gold, Tin, Tungsten	Producer	Placer
Brown Palace Group	Gold, Lead, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Devils Corral Pit	Sulfur, Mercury, Gold	Past Producer
Dreamland Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	1906, 1908
Dreamland Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Janke Claims	Gold, Titanium, Metal, Tin, Mercury, Tungsten	Past Producer	1935
Lantern Project	Silver, Gold, Selenium	Prospect	vein
NBMG Sample Site 1794	Sulfur, Magnesite, Gold	Past Producer	Cinnabar, Sulfur
NBMG Sample Site 1794	Sulfur, Gold, Mercury	Past Producer
Nevada Sulphur Company Mine	Mercury, Aluminum, Silver, Sulfur	Past Producer	1875, 1877

Every working recorded in Pershing 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
Rosebud (historical)	0.8 miles	15
Scossa	5.4 miles	14
Placerites	8.3 miles	14
Farrell (historical)	18.7 miles	14
Poker Brown	22.1 miles	14
Mazuma (historical)	23.8 miles	13
Seven Troughs (historical)	24.0 miles	13
Tunnel Camp (historical)	24.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 846109. 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.