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Granite Point, Nevada

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Lovelock census division. It stands on Granite Point. The Survey maps it on the Granite Point quadrangle.

Granite Point within Pershing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Granite Point between 2002 and 2020, burning about 1,163 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1,162 acresWinnemucca District OfficeTOULON
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 95
16 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePershing CountyMM 102
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeTOULAN
29 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 99
28 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeRESERVATION
5 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 99
29 April 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 93

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pershing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Granite Point: 9 past producers, 3 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten, Silver, Perlite. 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
Ted Saylor MineAntimonyProducer
Toulon MillTungsten, Antimony, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Granite PointPerliteUnknown
Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence
Silver ProspectSilverPast Producer
Unnamed Silver ProspectSilverOccurrenceVein
Granite PointTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Granite PointTungstenPast Producer
SnowstormTungstenPast Producer1942
SnowstormTungstenPast Producer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Perth4.1 miles17
Toulon4.1 miles17
Toy (historical)7.4 miles17
Browns Station (historical)7.6 miles17
Lovelock8.0 miles16
Kodak12.4 miles16
Colado14.3 miles16
Clarksville (historical)15.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856040. 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.