Hillegas, Nevada

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.

• 1907 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1908 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1952 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Las Vegas NE quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1973 USGS Las Vegas NE quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Hillegas (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 923 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Carver Park
• East Las Vegas
• Henderson
• Lake Las Vegas
• Victory Village
• Whitney

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Hillegas (historical): 7 past producers, 4 producers, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Clark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 846685. 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.