Keystone, Nevada

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Ely census division. It stands on Keystone Hill. The Survey maps it on the Ruth quadrangle.

Keystone within White Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1952 USGS Ely quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS McGill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Ruth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000
1987 USGS Ely quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Keystone between 1992 and 2019, burning about 45 acres in total. 59 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
Natural	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	LUCKY
22 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	ROOKIE
2 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	BHP PACK
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	MAGMA WELL
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	WHITE HILL
13 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	GU GU
12 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	SQUAW PEAK
12 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	RIVER WASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 94 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 94 workings within 5 miles of Keystone: 57 past producers, 13 unknowns, 10 occurrences, 8 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Manganese. 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
Bedlam	Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Iron, Lead	Past Producer
Blair and Kearsarge Claim	Copper, Aluminum	Past Producer
Calumet Group	Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Carbonate and Eldorado Claims	Silver, Gold, Lead	Unknown
Columbia Mine	Manganese, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead	Past Producer
Consolidated Copper Mines	Chromium, Gold, Lead, Manganese, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
Elijah Claim	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Ely District (Robinson)	Copper, Gold, Nickel, Palladium, Platinum	Producer	1868
Ely Gold Mine	Mercury, Lead, Zinc, Manganese, Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Placer
Ely Gold Mine	Mercury, Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold	Unknown

Every working recorded in White Pine 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
Keystone Junction	0.2 miles	18
Ruth	1.1 miles	18
Sunshine Camp (historical)	1.2 miles	18
Mineral City	1.6 miles	18
Copper Flat	1.8 miles	18
Ruth (historical)	1.8 miles	18
Lane City	2.5 miles	18
Riepetown	2.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856058. 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.