McDermitt, 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.

• 1882 USGS Paradise quadrangle1:250000
• 1893 USGS Paradise quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1955 USGS McDermitt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS McDermitt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS McDermitt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Quinn River Valley quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS McDermitt quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of McDermitt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,858 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 15 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.

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:

• Cañon Creek Station (historical)
• National (historical)
• Raglan
• Rose Creek

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of McDermitt: 5 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Semiprecious Gemstone, Gemstone, Manganese. 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 Humboldt 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 845557. 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.