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Jiggs, Nevada

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Elko census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89815. It stands on Gilbert Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jiggs quadrangle. It stands 5,485 feet above sea level.

Jiggs within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Jiggs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 883 acres in total. 20 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
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreElko County Fire Protection DistrictCREEK BOTTOM
29 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreElko District OfficeRESERVOIR
10 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresElko District OfficeNDFASSIS27
1 September 2006Natural33 acresElko District OfficeZUNINO
1 September 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresElko District OfficeSHOOTING
7 August 2000Natural1.0 acresElko District OfficeNDFASSIS18
30 August 2007Natural5.0 acresElko District OfficeZUNINO
29 August 2007Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeBARNY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jiggs in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 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
April 2006FloodJiggs$10,000no account filed
May 2023Thunderstorm WindJiggs-Station (CRCN2) Crane Springs Raws, Elevation 6414 feet.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindJiggs-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 65 mph at the Crane Springs RAWS site and 68 mph at Spring Creek.
July 1998WildfireJiggs-A lightning caused wild fire on Cedar Ridge, just northwest of Jiggs burned 700 acres of a federally protected wild land study area.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindJiggs-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
Dry Creek2.7 miles15
Lee10.3 miles10
Huntington (historical)10.3 miles15
Ruby Valley12.4 miles12
Rock House13.5 miles12
Coral Hill (historical)15.1 miles10
Brennen Ranch17.8 miles10
Cottonwood (historical)17.9 miles13

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 JiggsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5145018The 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 845520. 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.