Horseshoe Bend, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Pioche census division. The Survey maps it on the Dow Mountain quadrangle.

Horseshoe Bend within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1885 USGS Pioche quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1886 USGS Pioche quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Dow Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

132 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Horseshoe Bend between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,610 acres in total. 119 started naturally. 2 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
9 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	SHEEP
7 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	GREY DOME
29 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	STEVE
18 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	NAT OUT TWO
18 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	DEVILS GAP
15 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	SR319MM66
14 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	HUSKER
12 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	LIEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 Horseshoe Bend: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Perlite, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Gold, Silver	Occurrence
	Unnamed Perlite Deposit	Perlite	Occurrence

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crestline	1.4 miles	14
Brown	5.3 miles	14
Ninemile Rocks	8.5 miles	14
Acoma	9.6 miles	14
Crossroads	10.6 miles	14
Barclay	13.4 miles	14
Joseco	13.6 miles	14
Islen	14.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856046. 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.