Hogum, Nevada

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Baker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89301. It lies near Mary Ann Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Hogum quadrangle.

Hogum within White Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 Ely quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Sacramento Pass quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1963 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000
1987 USGS Ely quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Hogum quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hogum between 1994 and 2020, burning about 719 acres in total. 8 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
3 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	WHEELER
29 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	WEAVER CR
28 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	BRUSH
20 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	HOG
18 August 2013	Natural	146 acres	Ely District Office	WILLARD
10 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Ely District Office	OSCEOLA
23 July 2020	Natural	under an acre	Great Basin National Park	BALD
22 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	SHINGLE CR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 93 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 93 workings within 5 miles of Hogum: 44 past producers, 23 occurrences, 20 prospects, 5 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Silver, Lead. 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
Cumberland Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Joe Bar No. 2	Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Osceola District Lode Deposits	Gold, Tungsten, Lead, Molybdenum, Manganese	Past Producer	1872, 1940
Osceola Mine & Mill	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Pea Ridge Mine	Tungsten, Gold	Past Producer	1916
Serpent Claim	Gold, Lead	Past Producer	1908
Serpent Claim	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Spring Valley Crystal Mine	Quartz	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Silver, Molybdenum, Copper, Lead	Prospect
Usbm Sample Locality #10	Lead, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper	Occurrence	Unknown

Every working recorded in White Pine 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
Osceola	2.7 miles	15
San Pedro (historical)	7.2 miles	15
Black Horse (historical)	9.2 miles	14
Majors Place	9.3 miles	18
Cooper (historical)	9.6 miles	18
Cleveland (historical)	14.3 miles	12
Shoshone	14.3 miles	9
Taylor (historical)	14.6 miles	18

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 Q122597823

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 860008. 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.