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Holborn, Nevada

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wells census division. It stands on Holborn Field. The Survey maps it on the Holborn quadrangle.

Holborn within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Holborn between 1993 and 2020, burning about 6,881 acres in total. 17 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
Natural17
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreElko District OfficeMOOR 3
7 August 2006Natural1,978 acresElko District OfficePEQUOP
6 August 2000Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeVALLEY
6 August 2000Natural50 acresElko District OfficeMULE
26 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresElko District OfficeHOLBURN 1
24 August 1993Natural2.0 acresElko District OfficeHOLBURN
20 August 1999Natural1,000 acresElko District OfficeHOLBORN
10 August 2020Natural24 acresElko District OfficeMARYS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Holborn: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite. 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
Rytting MineBarium-BariteOccurrence
Rytting MineBarium-BariteProspect

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holborn in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHolborn-Station (UP990) Moor, Elevation 6121 ft.

Every storm recorded in Elko 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
Fenelon3.1 miles9
Moor6.9 miles11
Pequop7.0 miles10
Melandco10.1 miles10
Wells14.2 miles10
Toano (historical)15.4 miles10
Oasis15.5 miles11
Cobre16.9 miles11

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 Q122564527The 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 856045. 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.