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Oasis, Nevada

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Montello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89835. The Survey maps it on the Cobre quadrangle. 4 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,870 feet above sea level.

Oasis within Elko County

Population over time

2 figures

Oasis fell from 29 to 4 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201029
20204-25 (-86%)

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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Oasis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,781 acres in total. 22 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
Natural22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreElko District OfficeHOPA
29 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreElko District OfficeMEDIAN 380
26 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreElko District OfficeREFER
2 September 1995Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficePEQUOP3
2 September 1995Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficePEQUOP4
16 September 1995Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeWELL
16 September 1995Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeSIXMILE
10 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresElko District OfficeFREEWAY OASIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Oasis: 1 unknown, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Barium-Barite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Copper KingBarium-BariteOccurrence
Long CanyonGold, SilverUnknown
Oasis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oasis in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2018HailOasis-Golf ball size hail was reported by the public from a supercell thunderstorm.
June 2015HailOasis-A video shows an estimated quarter to half dollar size hail falling on Interstate 80 near Pequop summit.
August 1993HailOasis-One-inch hail was reported in Oasis.
May 1998HailOasis-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindOasis-no account filed

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
Cobre7.3 miles11
Toano (historical)7.9 miles10
Silver Zone10.3 miles10
Loray11.9 miles10
Shafter12.2 miles9
Clifside13.6 miles10
Pequop14.1 miles10
Proctor14.6 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 OasisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6389213The 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 845590. 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.