McGill, Nevada
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the McGill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89318. The Survey maps it on the McGill quadrangle. 1,010 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,204 feet above sea level.
On record in McGill
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 3 records
American Legion Halllisted 1994
McGill Drug Storelisted 1998
Nevada Northern Railway-McGill Depotlisted 2015
Population over time
2 figuresMcGill fell from 1,148 to 1,010 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,148 | |
| 2020 | 1,010 | -138 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Ely quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS McGill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS McGill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS Ely quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
2 photographs, 1940Taken 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.
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of McGill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 971 acres in total. 26 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Natural | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | SUBSTATION |
| 1 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ely District Office | WHIX SIX |
| 8 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ely District Office | BASSETT |
| 8 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ely District Office | MM68 |
| 4 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | MCGILL SPR |
| 4 August 1992 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Ely District Office | AXE HANDLE |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | RIDGE |
| 28 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | NUTSABOLTS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of McGill: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ely Amalgamated Copper Co | Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Ely Gibraltar Claims | Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | Anglesite, Copper, Galena | |
| Ely Gibraltar Claims | Lead, Copper, Gold, Iron, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Keystone Dumps | Copper, Molybdenum, Lead, Gold, Potassium | Past Producer | ||
| Ray Dar #2 | Copper, Lead, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Red Hills Claims. | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Workings | Lead, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| (Facility) Mc Gill Smelter | Copper | Plant | ||
| Limekiln Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steptoe | 0.8 miles | 19 | |
| Adverse | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| McGill Junction | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Lavon | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Kent (historical) | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Glenn | 6.2 miles | 19 | |
| Baltimore Mill | 9.6 miles | 17 | |
| Mosier | 10.3 miles | 17 |
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 McGill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1014017 | The 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 845558. 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.






