Jean, Nevada

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.

• 1910 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000
• 1912 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1942 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000
• 1947 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1948 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Goodsprings quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Mesquite Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Jean quadrangle1:24000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Jean between 2000 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 8 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Jean: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Radium, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jean in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Clark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 845519. 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.