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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.

McGill within White Pine County

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

Population over time

2 figures

McGill 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,148
20201,010-138 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1940

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.

Ore from Ruth copper pit is refined at mill in McGill, Nevada
Ore from Ruth copper pit is refined at mill in McGill, Nevada
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress
Ore from Ruth copper pit is refined at mill in McGill, Nevada
Ore from Ruth copper pit is refined at mill in McGill, Nevada
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
17 September 2019Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSUBSTATION
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeWHIX SIX
8 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeBASSETT
8 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeMM68
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeMCGILL SPR
4 August 1992Natural6.0 acresEly District OfficeAXE HANDLE
3 August 1992Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeRIDGE
28 August 2000Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeNUTSABOLTS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ely Amalgamated Copper CoLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Ely Gibraltar ClaimsLead, Gold, Copper, ZincPast ProducerAnglesite, Copper, Galena
Ely Gibraltar ClaimsLead, Copper, Gold, Iron, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Keystone DumpsCopper, Molybdenum, Lead, Gold, PotassiumPast Producer
Ray Dar #2Copper, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Red Hills Claims.Silver, GoldOccurrence
Unnamed WorkingsLead, Copper, ZincPast Producer
(Facility) Mc Gill SmelterCopperPlant
Limekiln QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working 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
Steptoe0.8 miles19
Adverse1.6 miles19
McGill Junction2.6 miles17
Lavon5.4 miles17
Kent (historical)5.7 miles18
Glenn6.2 miles19
Baltimore Mill9.6 miles17
Mosier10.3 miles17

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 McGillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1014017The 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.