Miriam, Nevada

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Carson Sink census division. It lies near Humboldt Dike. The Survey maps it on the Ocala quadrangle.

Miriam within Churchill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 23 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.

1908 USGS Carson Sink quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1910 USGS Carson Sink quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1951 USGS Carson Sink quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1957 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Carson Sink quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Ocala quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Miriam between 1996 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 92
20 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM89
23 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 87
16 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 85
13 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Winnemucca District Office	91
30 April 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	TRINITY
17 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 90
13 October 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 89

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Churchill County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Miriam: 19 past producers, 10 prospects, 9 occurrences, 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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
Best Bet	Gold, Perlite	Occurrence
Copper King Mine	Tungsten, Copper, Molybdenum, Iron, Manganese, Silver, Uranium	Occurrence	1906, 1952
Silver Occurrence	Silver, Manganese, Gold	Past Producer
Sodium Nitrate Occurrence	Sodium	Occurrence
St Anthony Mine	Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Tungsten Prospect	Tungsten, Molybdenum	Prospect
Ff Prospect	Salt, Gold	Prospect
Landsources	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Unnamed Salt Deposit	Salt	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Churchill 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
Cressid	2.4 miles	23
Trinity	3.3 miles	23
Ocala	4.2 miles	23
Huxley	7.5 miles	23
Jessup	9.9 miles	22
Parran	11.8 miles	23
Fillmore (historical)	19.2 miles	22
Leete (historical)	24.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856086. 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.