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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.

Imlay within Pershing County

Population over time

2 figures

Imlay 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.

YearPeople Change
2010171
2020210+39 (+23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2022

Taken 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.

One of the American West's seemingly endless freight trains crosses the high desert near the town of Imlay
One of the American West's seemingly endless freight trains crosses the high desert near the town of Imlay
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

51 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined24
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresWinnemucca District OfficeIMLAY 3
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeIMLAY 2
8 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeIMLAY 1
4 September 2003Natural1.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeIMLAY MINE
3 September 2007Smoking1.8 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMM 143
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeFRONTAGE
16 September 1995Natural1.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMILL CITY
11 September 2000Smoking2.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMM142

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pershing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Imlay MineGold, Silver, Tungsten, Copper, Lead, Boron-BoratesProducerUnderground
Imlay MineGold, Antimony, Tungsten, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Stank and Forge LeaseTungsten, MolybdenumPast Producer1914
Tehama MineGold, Silver, CopperPast ProducerStockwork
Imlay Canyon PlacersGold, Tungsten, MercuryProducerPlacer
Imlay Canyon PlacersGold, Tungsten, MercuryPast Producer
Unnamed Silver OccurrenceSilver, GoldOccurrence
Unnamed Silver OccurrenceSilverOccurrence
Clad PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Imlay PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pershing County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2006FloodImlay$50,000no account filed
October 2024Heavy RainImlay-A mesonet station (MJBN2-Majuba) located 21.0 mi WNW of Imlay, NV, reported 24 hour rainfall totaling 0.55 inches.
October 2023Heavy RainImlay-A mesonet station (MJBN2-Majuba) located 21.0 mi WNW of Imlay, NV reported a total rainfall amount of 0.68 inches.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindImlay-Majuba RAWS, peak gust during preceding hour.

Every storm 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
Lander City (historical)2.3 miles22
Mill City4.5 miles22
Humboldt City6.2 miles18
Humboldt6.7 miles15
Humboldt House7.0 miles15
Neptune City (historical)7.8 miles22
Star City (historical)8.0 miles18
Tungsten8.3 miles19

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 ImlayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475937The 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.