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Lee Canyon Summer Home Area, Nevada

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89124. It lies near Foxtail Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Charleston Peak quadrangle.

Lee Canyon Summer Home Area within Clark County

On record in Lee Canyon Summer Home Area

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

478 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 478 fires within 5 miles of Lee Canyon Summer Home Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,204 acres in total. 116 started naturally. 10 were 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
Recreation and ceremony201
Natural116
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Equipment and vehicle use21
Smoking21
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning7
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2008Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBRISTLECONE WFU
8 September 2008Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestSAWMILL
8 September 2008Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestMUD WFU
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBLUE TREE
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestELK
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestAVALANCHE
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestTELEPHONE
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBRUSH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lee Canyon Summer Home Area: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Silver, Lead. 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
Ada and Edith ClaimsSilver, LeadPast ProducerVein
Ada & Edith ClaimsLead, SilverPast Producer
Griffith MineLead, SilverPast Producer
Griffith MineLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Desert View Point4.2 miles21
Mount Charleston4.5 miles21
Kyle Canyon Summer Home Area5.2 miles21
Corn Creek (historical)16.5 miles22
Indian Springs17.2 miles17
Cactus Springs18.0 miles17
Bonnie Springs21.2 miles25
Mountain Springs22.3 miles22

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 Q122568474The 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 855697. 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.