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Mountain City, Nevada

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mountain City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89831. It lies near Harris Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Mountain City quadrangle. 14 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,607 feet above sea level.

Mountain City within Elko County

On record in Mountain City

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mountain City between 1993 and 2018, burning about 14,301 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2018Natural5.3 acresHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestRESERVATION HILL
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremony776 acresHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestCHINA GULCH
6 September 1999Natural80 acresShoshone Paiute TribesJONES FLAT
1 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestDROP POINT 70
9 August 2012Natural1.0 acresHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestCALIFORNIA CREEK
9 August 2012Natural1,009 acresEastern Nevada AgencyHANSEN
9 August 1994Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National Forestnot named
8 August 2012Natural11,822 acresHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBROWNS GULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 72 workings within 5 miles of Mountain City: 37 past producers, 16 occurrences, 14 prospects, 4 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, Copper. 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
Alberta Claim GroupSilver, Zinc, Molybdenum, Lead, Gold, Phosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Coffee PotSilver, Lead, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Golden EnsignSilver, Tungsten, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, MolybdenumPast ProducerVein
Golden Ensign MineMolybdenum, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Hot Spot No. 1Gold, Uranium, SilverProspect
Indian Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Lucky Nos. 1-11Gold, Antimony, Copper, Zinc, Silver, LeadProspect
MariposaSilver, Copper, Gold, LeadPast Producer
Mayflower-Bronze GroupSilver, Zinc, Lead, GoldProspect
MiscellaneousLead, Copper, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain City in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2003: 1 hail, 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
August 2003Flash FloodMountain City-Heavy rains washed mud onto 4 sections of the Bruneau River Road near Mountain City blocking the road.
July 2001HailMountain City-A severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts to 66 mph at the Antelope Lake Raws then dropped 1 inch diameter hail in Mountain City.

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
Patsville2.0 miles16
Point of Rocks10.0 miles16
Owyhee10.3 miles12
Columbia (historical)12.6 miles11
White Rock (historical)13.5 miles11
Number One Settlement13.7 miles12
Excelsior (historical)14.2 miles11
Island Mountain (historical)14.7 miles17

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 Mountain CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6418841The 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 860665. 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.