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Moor, Nevada

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89835. The Survey maps it on the Moor Summit quadrangle. It stands 6,158 feet above sea level.

Moor within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Moor between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,960 acres in total. 32 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
Natural32
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2011Natural5.0 acresElko District OfficeWOODHILLS
27 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreElko District OfficeMOOR 3
24 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1,467 acresElko District OfficeWELLS
21 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreElko District OfficeTIRE
2 September 1995Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeMOOR1
7 August 1997Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeEAST
7 August 1993Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeWOOD HILL2
5 August 2012Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeMOORE EXIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Moor: 8 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Copper, Copper, Lead. 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
Iron OccurrenceIronProspect
Limestone OccurrenceLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Marble2Marble, DimensionPast Producer1964
West PequipGold, SilverUnknown
Wood HillsSilicaOccurrence
Copper MineCopperUnknown
Lead MineLeadUnknown
Unnamed CopperCopperOccurrenceVein
Unnamed LeadLeadOccurrenceGalena
Unnamed ProspectIron, CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moor in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 tornado. 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
June 2023Tornado (EFU)Moor-Public submitted photos of a tornado SE of Wells over mountainous terrain of the Wood Hills area. No survey was conducted due to no apparent damage and inaccessible or remote terrain. Path length an width were guessed at.

Every storm recorded in Elko 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
Holborn6.9 miles9
Wells7.9 miles10
Fenelon10.0 miles9
Alazon11.5 miles10
Melandco11.5 miles10
Pequop13.8 miles10
Welcome15.4 miles10
Tobar (historical)15.8 miles10

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 MoorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20714809The 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 856090. 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.