Mineral, Nevada

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Beowawe census division. It lies near Aiken Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Hill NW quadrangle.

Mineral within Eureka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1937 USGS Mineral Hill quadrangle1:48000
1937 USGS Mineral Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Mineral Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Mineral Hill NW quadrangle1:24000
1987 USGS Crescent Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Mineral between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,266 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 3 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
2 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	SLAUGHTER
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	210 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	JD
29 August 2017	Natural	2.0 acres	Elko District Office	MINERAL HILL
29 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	LITTLE TREE
28 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	RIDGE
23 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	NATURALOUT
23 August 1997	Natural	2.0 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	SHANNON
21 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	DIAMOND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eureka 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
Blackburn	3.9 miles	15
Shannon	5.1 miles	15
Alpha	11.3 miles	15
Buckhorn	15.6 miles	11
White (historical)	17.1 miles	19
Romano (historical)	17.3 miles	19
Corwin	18.5 miles	15
Tonkin	20.1 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856085. 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.