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Hiko, Nevada

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Alamo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89017. It lies in Hiko Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Hiko quadrangle. 124 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,314 feet above sea level.

Hiko within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Hiko grew from 119 to 124 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010119
2020124+5 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hiko between 2004 and 2013, burning about 660 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
9 September 2004Natural5.5 acresEly District OfficeSILVER
20 July 2008Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeNAT OUT ONE
27 May 2005Natural137 acresEly District OfficeMAIL SUMMI
10 May 2006Arson/incendiarism515 acresEly District OfficeMAIL SUMMI
1 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresEly District OfficeCRYSTAL SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hiko: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Gold. 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
Easter ProjectGoldProspect
Crystal SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Hiko SpringGeothermalUnknown

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hiko in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 5 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
October 2015Flash FloodHiko$10,000Highway 93 was flooded in numerous locations near Lincoln County mile marker 63, with pavement starting to wash out.
July 2015Flash FloodHiko$2,000Highway 318 was closed at mile marker 2 due to flash flooding and debris on the road.
September 2017Flash FloodHiko$1,000A 200-300 yard stretch of Highway 318 was flooded at Hiko.
October 2015Flash FloodHiko$1,000Highway 318 was flooded in Hiko.
July 2006HailHiko-Dime size hail in Rachel.
July 2006Flash FloodHiko-Nevada Highway 318 covered with debris.
August 2000Tornado (F1)Hiko-A tornado touched down briefly 5N of Hiko, NV on a ridgetop. No apparent damage as tornado touched down in open country and was on the ground for no more than two minutes.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Crystal Springs4.5 miles10
Logan (historical)9.0 miles9
Ash Springs9.6 miles12
Alamo16.3 miles13
Tempiute22.2 miles12
Helene25.0 miles16
Delamar25.9 miles16
Ferguson (historical)26.2 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on HikoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968296The 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 845862. 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.