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Moapa Town, Nevada

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89025. The Survey maps it on the Moapa East quadrangle. 1,006 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,611 feet above sea level.

Moapa Town within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Moapa Town fell from 1,025 to 1,006 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
20101,025
20201,006-19 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Moapa Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeBIA 3 -LINCOLN
21 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeBIA 1
20 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeMM93
17 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeMOAPA
8 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeCCFD 18
4 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeSTATION FIRE
28 July 2014Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeMEADOW VALLEY
24 July 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeMOAPA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Moapa Town: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver. 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
R.A.H. GroupUraniumProspect
SilverstoneGold, SilverPast Producer
Leavitt Ready MixSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moapa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
White Star DepositGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer1919
White Star MineGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer1919
White Star No. 2 MineGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Moapa1.5 miles20
Glendale1.8 miles20
Arrowhead1.9 miles20
Hupton (historical)2.0 miles20
West Point (historical)3.2 miles20
Jackman4.0 miles20
Amber7.4 miles21
Logandale8.3 miles21

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 Moapa TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1953161The 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 1852656. 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.