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Goldfield, Nevada

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Goldfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89013. It lies near Pozo Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Goldfield quadrangle. 225 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,686 feet above sea level.

Goldfield within Esmeralda County

On record in Goldfield

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

Goldfield fell from 268 to 225 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
2010268
2020225-43 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1940

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Head frame. Goldfield, Nevada
Head frame. Goldfield, Nevada
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress
Abandoned school. Goldfield, Nevada
Abandoned school. Goldfield, Nevada
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Goldfield in 1999, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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 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
18 June 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeGOLDFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Esmeralda County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 395 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 395 workings within 5 miles of Goldfield: 241 prospects, 112 past producers, 32 occurrences, 7 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, 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
Atlanta Mines Co. ClaimsGold, Silver, Copper, TinPast ProducerFamatinite
Bismuth OccurrenceBismuthOccurrence
ColumbiaMolybdenum, Tungsten, KaolinOccurrence
Columbia ProspectTungsten, MolybdenumOccurrenceMolybdenite, Powellite, Scheelite
Combination MineGold, Silver, Tellurium, Copper, Zinc, Antimony, Arsenic, BismuthPast Producer1903
Congress ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Earth Sciences Montezuma DepositGold, Aluminum, PotassiumPast Producer1972
Five Friends ShaftZinc, LeadOccurrenceVein
FlorenceGold, Lead, Silver, Copper, AntimonyPast Producer
Florence MineGold, Silver, Copper, Bismuth, Zinc, AntimonyPast Producer1903, 1904

Every working recorded in Esmeralda County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goldfield in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 2 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 2005Flash FloodGoldfield-Alkali Rd. and State Highway 264 impassable.
September 1997Flash FloodGoldfield-State Route 66 was blocked due to water running over the road. Also, winds estimated at 50 to 60 mph were reported.

Every storm recorded in Esmeralda 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
Florence Hill0.9 miles20
Jumbotown (historical)0.9 miles20
Columbia (historical)1.1 miles20
West Spring2.1 miles17
Gemfield3.8 miles17
Montezuma7.1 miles17
Alkali9.7 miles17
Cuprite (historical)12.7 miles20

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 GoldfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q930361The 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 854468. 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.