Number One Settlement, Nevada

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Mountain City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89832. The Survey maps it on The Point quadrangle.

Number One Settlement within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1939 USGS Owyhee quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Owyhee quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS McDermitt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS McDermitt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS The Point quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Bull Run Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Number One Settlement between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,226 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning	141
Fireworks	44
Natural	16
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	ROA'S TURN
7 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	BONFIRE
7 September 1998	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	FIREWORKS
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	RATTLESNAK
6 September 2003	Debris and open burning	32 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	WILLOW GRO
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	TRANS ST.
5 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	BICYCLE
4 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	DUMP

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
Owyhee	3.4 miles	12
Mountain City	13.7 miles	16
Patsville	15.5 miles	16
White Rock (historical)	17.4 miles	11
Excelsior (historical)	19.8 miles	11
Echo	21.5 miles	11
Columbia (historical)	21.7 miles	11
Point of Rocks	23.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 852100. 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.