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Humboldt House, Nevada

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Imlay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89418. It lies near Humboldt Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Rye Patch Reservoir South quadrangle.

Humboldt House within Pershing 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.

Fires near this place

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Humboldt House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 15,673 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMCGEE
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeHUMBOLDT
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresWinnemucca District OfficeIMLAY 3
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeIMLAY 2
4 September 2003Natural1.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeIMLAY MINE
3 September 2007Smoking1.8 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMM 143
14 September 2017Natural22 acresWinnemucca District OfficeRYE
12 September 2017Natural207 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMM 135

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pershing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Humboldt House: 19 past producers, 10 prospects, 9 unknowns, 8 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Florida Canyon Gold MineGold, Silver, Mercury, Kaolin, Arsenic, Barium-Barite, SulfurProducer1986, 2004
Florida Canyon Kaolin ProspectClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Florida Canyon Kaolin ProspectKaolinPast Producer
Gamble ProspectTungsten, Gold, Antimony, SilverPast ProducerVein
HumboldtMercuryOccurrenceMercury
I M ClaimsGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Arsenic, AntimonyProspect
I M ClaimsGold, Silver, Arsenic, Lead, Antimony, CopperPast ProducerBindheimite, Gold, Jamesonite, Tetrahedrite
Imlay MineGold, Silver, Tungsten, Copper, Lead, Boron-BoratesProducerUnderground
Imlay MineGold, Antimony, Tungsten, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Lakeview MineTungsten, Beryllium, Fluorine-Fluorite, MicaPast Producer1932

Every working recorded in Pershing 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
Humboldt0.3 miles15
Humboldt City2.5 miles18
Twain3.6 miles18
Imlay7.0 miles17
Star City (historical)7.1 miles18
Lander City (historical)8.9 miles22
Poker Brown9.8 miles14
Rye Patch10.7 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.

Wikidata item Q122551764The 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 848212. 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.