BlockHappy Creek Station, Nevada
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Summit Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89445. It stands on Happy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bottle Hill quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Disaster quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Disaster quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Bottle Creek quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Jackson Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Bottle Hill quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Happy Creek Station between 1992 and 2006, burning about 394 acres in total. 3 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 | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 1996 | Natural | 50 acres | Winnemucca District Office | HAPPY CREE |
| 21 July 2000 | Other causes | under an acre | Winnemucca District Office | HAPPY STAK |
| 12 July 2006 | Natural | 44 acres | Winnemucca District Office | HAPPY CAMP |
| 23 June 1992 | Natural | 300 acres | Winnemucca District Office | HAPPYCREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Happy Creek Station: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin-Keeney Property | Mercury | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quinn River Crossing | 8.7 miles | 19 | |
| Dyke | 13.8 miles | 19 | |
| Varyville (historical) | 24.2 miles | 16 | |
| Awakening | 25.0 miles | 16 | |
| Daveytown | 26.6 miles | 16 | |
| Red Butte (historical) | 27.7 miles | 16 | |
| Amos (historical) | 29.3 miles | 16 | |
| Orovada | 30.9 miles | 16 |
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 Q122591345 | The 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 857278. 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.