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Lockwood, Nevada

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89434. It lies near Lagomarsino Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Vista quadrangle. It stands 4,360 feet above sea level.

Lockwood within Storey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 28 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

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Lockwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27,772 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Firearms and explosives use4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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 2018Debris and open burning14 acresCarson City District OfficeMUSTANG
6 September 2011Fireworks157 acresCarson City District OfficeHOMERUN
3 September 1997Natural379 acresCarson City District OfficeMUSTANG 2
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCarson City District OfficePARK
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCarson City District OfficeMUSTANG 3
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresStorey County Fire DepartmentPOWERLINE
6 August 2017Natural192 acresCarson City District OfficeCANYON
6 August 2017Natural2,816 acresCarson City District OfficePRATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Storey 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 Lockwood: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Mercury, Diatomite. 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
Hill and Burgner ProspectUraniumProspect
Revelation Grog PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Truckee Canyon DepositPerliteOccurrence
White Bird ProspectDiatomiteProspect
Washington Hill MineMercuryOccurrence1941
Washington Hill MineMercuryPast Producer1941
Pumice DepositPumiceOccurrence
Truckee Canyon DepositPumicePast Producer
Unnamed Pumicious RhyolitePumiceOccurrence
All-Lite Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Storey County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lockwood in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 flash 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
February 1996Flash FloodLockwood$10,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Storey 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
Mustang Ranch0.7 miles28
Virginia City Highlands8.7 miles32
Clark9.6 miles23
Flowery City (historical)13.5 miles31
Virginia City13.6 miles32
Divide14.4 miles32
Mark Twain Estates14.7 miles31
Gold Hill15.0 miles32

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 LockwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15242605The 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 856069. 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.