Midas, Nevada

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gabbs census division. The Survey maps it on the South Shoshone Peak quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Midas within Nye County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1955 USGS Millett quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS South Shoshone Peak quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1959 USGS Millett quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Smith Creek Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS South Shoshone Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Midas (historical) between 2002 and 2006, burning under an acre in total. 2 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	2

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
7 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	IDLEWILD
12 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	SAND WASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Midas (historical): 4 prospects, 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Silver, Gold, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dottie Lee Property	Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar, Fluorite
Top of the Mountain Prospect	Gold, Silver, Copper	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect #2	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Surface/Underground
Dottie Lee Prospect	Uranium, Mercury	Prospect
War Cloud Property	Mercury	Past Producer	Cinnabar
Lebeau Prospect	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Shamrock Tunnel No. 2	Silver	Past Producer
Vernal Prospect	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Hazel E Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence
Hazel E Prospect	Uranium	Unknown

Every working recorded in Nye 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Idlewild (historical)	2.1 miles	12
Ione	6.6 miles	17
Duluth (historical)	7.1 miles	12
Penelas (historical)	7.5 miles	10
Glen Hamilton (historical)	7.6 miles	17
Phonolite (historical)	8.0 miles	10
Shamrock (historical)	8.1 miles	17
Ellsworth (historical)	8.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 848183. 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.