Overton, Nevada

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 4 records

• Boulder Dam Park Museumlisted 1996
• LDS Moapa Stake Office Buildinglisted 2002
• Overton Gymnasiumlisted 1992
• St. Thomas Memorial Cemeterylisted 2005

Surveyed buildings and structures 6 records

• Route No. 1 Overton-Lake Mead Road, Dikes & Ditches, Between Overton Beach & Park Boundary, Overtonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Route No. 1, Overton-Lake Mead Road, Gutters, 6 miles south of Overton, Overtonfederal building survey, 9 photographs
• Route No. 1-Overton-Lake Mead Road, Between Overton Beach & Park Boundary, 6 miles south of Overton, Overtonfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Route No. 1-Overton-Lake Mead Road, Culverts and Headwalls, 6 miles south of Overton, Overtonfederal building survey, 30 photographs
• Route No. 1-Overton-Lake Mead Road, Low Water Crossings, 6 miles south of Overton, Overtonfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Route No. 1-Overton-Lake Mead Road, Station Markers, 6 miles south of Overton, Overtonfederal building survey, 3 photographs

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.

• 1886 USGS Saint Thomas quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1893 USGS Saint Thomas quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Overton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Overton quadrangle1:24000
• 1987 USGS Overton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Overton between 1995 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Old Overton (historical)
• Simonsville (historical)
• Glassand
• Kaolin (historical)
• Moapa Valley
• Saint Joseph (historical)

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Overton: 16 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Overton in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

Every storm recorded in Clark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 858124. 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.