Ninemile Rocks, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Pioche census division. The Survey maps it on the Panaca Summit quadrangle.

Ninemile Rocks within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1885 USGS Pioche quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1886 USGS Pioche quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Panaca Summit quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

96 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Ninemile Rocks between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,938 acres in total. 73 started naturally. 8 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	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
9 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	EDWIN 2
9 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	EDWIN 6
9 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	EDWIN 4
9 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	EDWIN 3
9 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Southern Nevada District Office	PANACA1
3 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	YETI
29 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	BULLDOG
2 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	GLEASON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ninemile Rocks: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Metal, Iron, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Panaca Ilmenite Placers	Titanium, Metal, Iron	Occurrence
	Panaca Ilmenite Placers	Titanium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Delmues (historical)	7.6 miles	16
Horseshoe Bend	8.5 miles	14
Flat Nose	8.6 miles	16
Panaca	8.7 miles	16
Bullionville (historical)	9.7 miles	16
Crestline	9.8 miles	14
Cold Spring	10.8 miles	16
Rose Valley	10.8 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122592637

The 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 856099. 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.