Imlay, Nevada
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Imlay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89418. The Survey maps it on the Imlay quadrangle. 210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,204 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresImlay grew from 171 to 210 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 171 | |
| 2020 | 210 | +39 (+23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000
- 1935 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Imlay quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Eugene Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Imlay quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph, 2022Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
51 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Imlay between 1993 and 2020, burning about 76,636 acres in total. 12 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/undetermined | 24 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.1 acres | Winnemucca District Office | IMLAY 3 |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Winnemucca District Office | IMLAY 2 |
| 8 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Winnemucca District Office | IMLAY 1 |
| 4 September 2003 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Winnemucca District Office | IMLAY MINE |
| 3 September 2007 | Smoking | 1.8 acres | Winnemucca District Office | MM 143 |
| 23 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Winnemucca District Office | FRONTAGE |
| 16 September 1995 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Winnemucca District Office | MILL CITY |
| 11 September 2000 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Winnemucca District Office | MM142 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Imlay: 7 past producers, 4 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Tungsten, Mercury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imlay Mine | Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Copper, Lead, Boron-Borates | Producer | Underground | |
| Imlay Mine | Gold, Antimony, Tungsten, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Stank and Forge Lease | Tungsten, Molybdenum | Past Producer | 1914 | |
| Tehama Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | Stockwork | |
| Imlay Canyon Placers | Gold, Tungsten, Mercury | Producer | Placer | |
| Imlay Canyon Placers | Gold, Tungsten, Mercury | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Silver Occurrence | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Silver Occurrence | Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Clad Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Imlay Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Imlay in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 heavy rain, 1 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2006 | Flood | Imlay | $50,000 | no account filed |
| October 2024 | Heavy Rain | Imlay | - | A mesonet station (MJBN2-Majuba) located 21.0 mi WNW of Imlay, NV, reported 24 hour rainfall totaling 0.55 inches. |
| October 2023 | Heavy Rain | Imlay | - | A mesonet station (MJBN2-Majuba) located 21.0 mi WNW of Imlay, NV reported a total rainfall amount of 0.68 inches. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Imlay | - | Majuba RAWS, peak gust during preceding hour. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lander City (historical) | 2.3 miles | 22 | |
| Mill City | 4.5 miles | 22 | |
| Humboldt City | 6.2 miles | 18 | |
| Humboldt | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Humboldt House | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Neptune City (historical) | 7.8 miles | 22 | |
| Star City (historical) | 8.0 miles | 18 | |
| Tungsten | 8.3 miles | 19 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Imlay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3475937 | 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 841225. 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.






