Grant City, Nevada

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Duckwater census division. It lies near West Fork Grant Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Bullwhacker Springs quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Grant City within Nye County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1956 USGS Lund quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Lund quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Troy Canyon quadrangle1:62500
1988 USGS Quinn Canyon Range quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Bullwhacker Springs quadrangle1:24000

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 Grant City (historical) between 1996 and 2011, burning about 630 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
9 September 1999	Natural	30 acres	Ely District Office	GRANGE
4 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	HEATH CANYON
30 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	TROY PEAK
3 August 2000	Natural	600 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	MAMMOTH
4 July 1996	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	IRWIN CAMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Grant City (historical): 17 prospects, 9 past producers, 6 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Lead, Tungsten. 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
Fuller Group	Lead, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Haller Property	Zinc, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Galena, Sphalerite
Mayolli Claim	Gold, Silver, Lead	Occurrence
Mother's Day Adit	Lead, Zinc	Prospect
North Star Claim	Lead, Silver	Occurrence	1865
Rainbow Group Claims	Manganese	Occurrence
Schloerb Prospect	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer
Terrell Mine	Tungsten, Manganese, Copper, Zinc, Beryllium	Past Producer	Scheelite
Unnamed Prospect	Gold, Zinc, Tungsten, Silver, Lead	Prospect
Vanderhoef Claims	Silver, Zinc, Lead	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Nye 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
Troy (historical)	5.7 miles	6
Crows Nest	8.6 miles	6
Nyala	15.8 miles	5
Lockes	16.4 miles	8
Allred (historical)	18.1 miles	8
Hot Creek	19.9 miles	5
Adaven	20.0 miles	5
Currant	22.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 862920. 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.