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Johnnie, Nevada

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pahrump census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89060. It lies near Mount Montgomery. The Survey maps it on the Mount Schader quadrangle.

Johnnie within Nye County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Johnnie between 2005 and 2017, burning about 346 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 August 2005Natural23 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeGRAPEVINE2
24 August 2017Natural6.8 acresHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestJOHNIE
17 July 2006Natural315 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeCRYSTAL
3 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeNYE 1
20 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeTWO BROTHERS
14 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeROADRUNNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Johnnie: 10 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Silver. 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
Labbe MineGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectCopper, SilverProspect
Lead ProspectLeadProspect
Unnamed ProspectLeadPast ProducerVein
Congress MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Luck GroupSilverUnknown
Bear ClaimsGoldOccurrence
Butterfly ClaimsGoldOccurrenceSurface/Underground
Congress MineGoldPast Producer1890
Delta Claim GroupGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Nye County

Storms near this place

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnnie in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
December 2019Flash FloodJohnnie$20,000About two feet of water and mud flowed over Highway 160 at Roadrunner Rd, with one swift water rescue, at least one vehicle stuck in the mud, and other vehicles stranded due to water.
October 2015Flash FloodJohnnie$20,000Bell Vista Road was severely damaged by flooding.
October 2025LightningJohnnie$10,000A house near Mae Road was struck by lightning, knocking off the siding and scorching the house, but not setting fire to it.
August 2022Flash FloodJohnnie$2,000Water and debris flowed over Highway 160.
July 2016Flash FloodJohnnie$2,000Mud and debris closed Crystal Road.
September 2023Flash FloodJohnnie$1,000Bell Vista Rd was flooded near Ash Meadows Rd.

Every storm recorded in Nye 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
Labbe Camp2.3 miles21
Bowlerville (historical)2.3 miles21
Crystal7.1 miles21
Stirling (historical)7.5 miles20
Amargosa (historical)11.3 miles24
Ashmeadow (historical)12.5 miles24
Camp Desert Rock14.6 miles26
Pahrump15.3 miles20

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 Q122561710The 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 856055. 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.