North Fork, Nevada

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mountain City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89801. It stands on Fourmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the North Fork quadrangle. It stands 6,125 feet above sea level.

North Fork within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS North Fork quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Double Mtn quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of North Fork between 1995 and 2014, burning about 532 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 September 1995	Natural	12 acres	Elko District Office	CHARLESTON
7 August 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	420 acres	Nevada Division of Forestry - Northern Region	PX
11 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41 acres	Elko District Office	PX
11 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Elko District Office	PX
23 July 2006	Natural	25 acres	Elko District Office	PX
20 July 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Elko District Office	GOICOECHEA
14 July 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Elko District Office	NF MAINT STATION
3 June 2007	Natural	13 acres	Elko District Office	TRUETT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jack Creek	15.0 miles	10
Anderson (historical)	15.2 miles	10
Williams Cabin	17.9 miles	17
Island Mountain (historical)	18.0 miles	17
Deep Creek	18.5 miles	11
Columbia (historical)	19.4 miles	11
Point of Rocks	20.4 miles	16
Charleston	20.8 miles	17

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 North Fork	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3478216	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 845588. 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.