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Harney, Nevada

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Beowawe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89821. It lies near Palisade Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Scotts Gulch quadrangle. It stands 4,777 feet above sea level.

Harney within Eureka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Harney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84,363 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeSCOTTS GULCH
7 September 2019Natural1.0 acresElko District OfficeBLOSSOM
7 September 1998Natural5.0 acresElko District OfficeWILLIEBILL
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresElko District OfficeBARTH
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use17 acresElko District OfficeEMIGRANT
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined167 acresElko District OfficeHUMBOLDT
10 September 1996Natural29,135 acresElko District OfficeFRENCHIE
6 August 1999Natural48,479 acresElko District OfficeROSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eureka County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Harney: 7 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Barium-Barite, Iron. 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
OnondagaSilver, Copper, Lead, Gold, ZincPast Producer1881
Onondaga MineSilver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Ruby ClaimCopper, Barium-BaritePast ProducerVein
Zenoli MineSilver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, AntimonyPast Producer1907
Zenoli MineGold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Barth MineIron, SilverPast Producer1869
Barth MineIronPast ProducerSurface
Black RockManganeseOccurrence
Black Rock IiManganeseProspect
Safford CanyonBarium-BariteOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Eureka County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harney in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 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
May 2018Flash FloodHarney-NVDOT traffic webcams showed water running over Interstate 80 near Emigrant Pass, NV. Hail also accumulated a few inches deep in spots. Time estimated based off radar and webcam image.
May 2015HailHarney-Up to penny size hail covered the highway to a depth of 2 inches. One vehicle slide off was reported.

Every storm recorded in Eureka 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
Cluro0.2 miles10
Barth3.0 miles10
Gerald (historical)4.0 miles14
Primeaux5.1 miles10
Palisade7.1 miles14
Thomas Place7.4 miles14
Beowawe8.2 miles10
Dunphy14.2 miles10

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 Q30626162The 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 840904. 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.