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Gouge Eye, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1882 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the McDermitt census division. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spring City quadrangle.

Gouge Eye within Humboldt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Gouge Eye between 1993 and 2018, burning about 433,041 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
30 September 2011Natural5,125 acresHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestTOM BASIN
15 September 2011Natural33 acresWinnemucca District OfficeARROW J
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7,838 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMARTIN CREEK
4 August 1993Naturalunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeBUTTERMILK
1 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use484 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMARTIN
6 July 2007Natural21 acresWinnemucca District OfficeHINKEY
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined416,821 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMARTIN
31 July 2011Natural1.3 acresWinnemucca District OfficeSOLID SILVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Gouge Eye: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Arsenic, 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
Bullion Mill SiteSilver, Arsenic, Gold, Mercury, ZincPast Producer
NBMG Sample Site 2605Silver, Gold, Lead, Antimony, CopperOccurrenceVein
Silver Butte MineSilver, Gold, Arsenic, Iron, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1931, 1935
Silver Butte MineSilver, Zinc, Gold, Copper, ArsenicPast Producer1868
Spring City MinesSilver, Gold, Zinc, Copper, IronPast Producer1868, 1879
Unnamed MineSilver, Copper, Gold, Antimony, LeadProspect
G U B ClaimsSilver, Arsenic, CopperOccurrenceVein
Gub ClaimsSilver, Arsenic, CopperProspect
Lower Spring City CanyonCopperOccurrence1875, 1908
Lower Spring City CanyonCopperProspect

Every working 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
Spring City (historical)1.6 miles14
Queen City (historical)3.8 miles14
Paradise Valley6.3 miles16
Rebel Creek (historical)15.8 miles16
Platora16.5 miles16
Orovada16.7 miles16
Cañon Creek Station (historical)18.2 miles17
National (historical)18.8 miles17

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 Q122544935The 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 859861. 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.