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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.

Jackpot within Elko County

Population over time

2 figures

Jackpot 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,195
2020855-340 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

12 since 1992

Regional 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 use6
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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
11 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRABBIT SPRINGS
8 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictRABBITSPR
20 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use13,745 acresIdaho Falls DistrictMULE CREEK
12 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreElko District Office4 MILES S OF JACKPOT
31 July 2003Smoking1.5 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRABBIT SP
24 July 2018Natural14 acresIdaho Falls DistrictTWIN SPRINGS
10 July 2012Natural1,475 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRABBIT SPRINGS
10 July 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictJACKPOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

4 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindJackpot$500A severe thunderstorm damaged signs and uprooted trees in Jackpot.
August 2003Flash FloodJackpot-Mud from heavy rains blocked the O'Neil Basin Road.
May 2016HailJackpot-no account filed
May 1998HailJackpot-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elko 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
Riverside Park (historical)2.6 miles10
Delaplain3.7 miles10
San Jacinto7.9 miles10
Contact15.3 miles11
Riverside (historical)19.1 miles9
Henry21.3 miles9
O'Neil (historical)22.7 miles13
Morlan (historical)29.1 miles10

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 JackpotAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2917481The 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.