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Majors Place, Nevada

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Baker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89301. The Survey maps it on the Majors Place quadrangle. It stands 6,489 feet above sea level.

Majors Place 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.

Fires near this place

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Majors Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 3 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
Natural20
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
1 September 1992Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeUSFS 18
30 August 1998Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeMAJOR
30 August 1992Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National Forestnot named
27 August 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeRIPPER
26 August 2015Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSOUTH SPRING
19 August 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeTERRY
19 August 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeMAJORS
17 August 2013Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeHENRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine 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 Majors Place: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Lead, Silver, 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
Capitol HillsSilver, GoldPast Producer
Copper OccurrenceCopper, Gold, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Rattlesnake HeavenFluorine-FluoriteUnknown
Unnamed Prospects Near Majors PlaceCopperOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in White Pine County

Storms near this place

4 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Majors Place in 4 storm reports between 2021 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2023Funnel CloudMajors Place-Storm Chaser Carter Murphy posted a photo of a funnel cloud on social media time stamped at 20:50 LT. Time was then estimated to be around 18:00 LT based on radar and satellite. The location was south of US-50, along US-93.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMajors Place-Station (SCHNV) 12.1 Southeast of Ely, Elevation 6687 feet.
July 2021FloodMajors Place-Heavy rain at Major Place caused approximately 2 to 3 inches of water to flow over US Highways 6 and 50. No damage was caused.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMajors Place-Station (SCHNV) 12.1 SE Ely (Ndot), Elevation 6687 feet.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cooper (historical)5.1 miles18
Taylor (historical)6.7 miles18
Hogum9.3 miles15
Osceola11.3 miles15
Tamerlane (historical)14.8 miles19
Shoshone15.3 miles9
Ward (historical)15.7 miles16
San Pedro (historical)16.1 miles15

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 Majors PlaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q9027025The 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 860466. 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.