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Islen, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Caliente census division. It lies in Islen Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Islen quadrangle.

Islen 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.

Fires near this place

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Islen between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,262 acres in total. 108 started naturally. 1 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
Natural108
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSTNP41
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeECCLES
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeFLAT TOP
20 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeBARK
19 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCLAY
1 September 2016Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeNAT OUT EIGHT
8 August 2009Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeLINX ASSIST THREE
8 August 2001Natural10 acresEly District OfficeISLEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Islen: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Perlite. 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
Unnamed Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Islen in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindIslen-This gust was measured at the Ella Mtn. fire lookout tower.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Barclay3.9 miles14
Crossroads4.3 miles14
Joseco5.3 miles14
Acoma8.0 miles14
Eccles8.3 miles14
Kershaw (historical)11.3 miles15
Brown11.3 miles14
Caliente11.7 miles15

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 Q122565662The 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 845516. 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.