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Minden, Nevada

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gardnerville-Minden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89423. It stands on Cottonwood Slough. The Survey maps it on the Minden quadrangle. 3,442 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,724 feet above sea level.

Minden within Douglas County

On record in Minden

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 11 records

Population over time

2 figures

Minden grew from 3,001 to 3,442 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
20103,001
20203,442+441 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 32 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.

Fires near this place

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Minden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Natural5
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
30 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestWALLEY
3 August 2017Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestMOTT
29 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEast Fork Fire and Paramedic District88
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresCarson City District OfficeRANCH
19 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitKINSGBURY
31 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreCarson City District OfficeBIA 12
28 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitWARRIOR
26 July 1997Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestLOWER ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Minden: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Sulfur, Uranium, Thorium. 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
Hunch and Lucky Strike ClaimsUranium, ThoriumOccurrenceAllanite
Hunch and Lucky Strike ClaimsUraniumProspect
Sawmill PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Section 15 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction, SulfurOccurrence
Section 21 ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein
Valleys Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
Bing Materials Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Johnson Genoa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nev. Contractors Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minden in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 4 heavy rain, 2 flood, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2006FloodMinden$524,000no account filed
July 2001LightningMinden$2,000no account filed
November 2018Heavy RainMinden-CO-OP Observer in Minden reported 0.52 inches of rainfall from 21 November 1100PST to 22 November 0600PST.
April 2018FloodMinden-Trained weather spotter reported that the East Fork of the Carson River was above its banks between Cedarwood Drive and Muller Lane. Ending time of flooding is based upon data from a nearby USGS gauge.
May 2018Heavy RainMinden-COOP observer station MINN2, Minden reported 0.58 inches of rainfall over a 24-hour period from 24 May 0500PST to 25 May 0500PST.
July 2005Flash FloodMinden-Heavy rainfall over the Pine Nut Mountains caused flash flooding in the Johnson Lane area north of Minden. Several roads were closed because of the high water.
July 2003Heavy RainMinden-A spotter measured .60 inches of rain in 15 minutes from a thunderstorm.
November 2002Heavy RainMinden-24 hour rainfall total of 1.75 inches.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Gardnerville1.2 miles29
Buckeye2.2 miles29
Centerville3.1 miles32
Walleys Hot Springs4.1 miles32
Mottsville4.2 miles32
Twelvemile House4.5 miles29
Dresslerville4.7 miles29
Gardnerville Ranchos4.7 miles29

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 MindenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q680911The 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 860600. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.