Jackpot, Nevada
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Jackpot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89825. The Survey maps it on the Jackpot quadrangle. 855 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,213 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresJackpot fell from 1,195 to 855 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 | 1,195 | |
| 2020 | 855 | -340 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Delaplain quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Jackpot quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Jackpot quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Jackpot between 1992 and 2018, burning about 15,772 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.5 acres | Idaho Falls District | RABBIT SPRINGS |
| 8 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Twin Falls District | RABBITSPR |
| 20 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13,745 acres | Idaho Falls District | MULE CREEK |
| 12 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Elko District Office | 4 MILES S OF JACKPOT |
| 31 July 2003 | Smoking | 1.5 acres | Idaho Falls District | RABBIT SP |
| 24 July 2018 | Natural | 14 acres | Idaho Falls District | TWIN SPRINGS |
| 10 July 2012 | Natural | 1,475 acres | Idaho Falls District | RABBIT SPRINGS |
| 10 July 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Twin Falls District | JACKPOT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jackpot in 4 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackpot | $500 | A severe thunderstorm damaged signs and uprooted trees in Jackpot. |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Jackpot | - | Mud from heavy rains blocked the O'Neil Basin Road. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Jackpot | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Jackpot | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Park (historical) | 2.6 miles | 10 | |
| Delaplain | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| San Jacinto | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Contact | 15.3 miles | 11 | |
| Riverside (historical) | 19.1 miles | 9 | |
| Henry | 21.3 miles | 9 | |
| O'Neil (historical) | 22.7 miles | 13 | |
| Morlan (historical) | 29.1 miles | 10 |
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 Jackpot | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2917481 | 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 858035. 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.
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.





