Jungo, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Winnemucca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89445. The Survey maps it on the Jungo quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Jungo within Humboldt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1931 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000
1935 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Jungo quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Eugene Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Jungo (historical) between 1996 and 2005, burning about 40 acres in total. None 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	2
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	GASKEL
9 May 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Winnemucca District Office	JUNGO TRCK
23 May 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	PUBLIC AST
21 March 1996	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Winnemucca District Office	JUNGO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Venado (historical)

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Jungo (historical): 3 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
NBMG Sample Site 2420	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Arsenic, Cadmium	Occurrence	Vein
NBMG Sample Site 2421	Silver, Lead, Gold, Arsenic	Occurrence	Vein
Unnamed Prospect	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Arsenic	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Lead, Zinc, Vanadium, Silver, Gold, Cadmium, Arsenic, Strontium	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Gold	Occurrence	Underground
Unnamed Prospect	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Venado (historical)	7.2 miles	14
Red Butte (historical)	16.9 miles	16
Pronto	17.1 miles	14
Sulphur	18.9 miles	15
Raglan	21.9 miles	20
Rose Creek	26.0 miles	20
Barrett Springs (historical)	26.3 miles	14
Laurel (historical)	27.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 854497. 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.