Mark Twain Estates, Nevada

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.

• 1891 USGS Carson quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Carson quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1893 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:125000
• 1950 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1952 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1959 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:62500
• 1967 USGS Flowery Peak quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1979 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Flowery Peak quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Mark Twain Estates between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,832 acres in total. 13 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Flowery City (historical)
• American City (historical)
• American Flat (historical)
• Comstock (historical)
• Divide
• Formanville (historical)

Every fire recorded in Storey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Mark Twain Estates: 31 past producers, 13 prospects, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Storey County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 852368. 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.