Overton, Nevada

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Summit Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89404. It lies near Spring Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Denio quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Overton within Humboldt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1886 USGS Disaster quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Disaster quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Denio quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1979 USGS Denio quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
1990 USGS Denio quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Overton (historical) between 1995 and 2017, burning about 4,424 acres in total. 12 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	12
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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	1,126 acres	Winnemucca District Office	DENIO
7 August 1997	Natural	284 acres	Winnemucca District Office	ALBERSON
4 August 1999	Natural	1,296 acres	Winnemucca District Office	DENIO N
29 August 2017	Natural	14 acres	Winnemucca District Office	PUEBLO
29 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	JUNCTION
22 August 2005	Natural	5.0 acres	Burns District	DENIO ASSI
21 August 2005	Natural	5.0 acres	Burns District	2231
14 August 1998	Natural	25 acres	Winnemucca District Office	DENIO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Overton (historical): 8 occurrences, 6 past producers, 6 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Baltazor Hot Springs	Geothermal	Occurrence
Cowden Mine	Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1894
Crystal Quartz	Quartz	Unknown
Denio Basin Group	Gold, Silver, Mercury	Prospect
Double Link	Mercury, Copper	Occurrence	1940
Hall Mine	Gold, Silver, Iron, Copper, Boron-Borates, Barium-Barite, Manganese, Chromium, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1930, 1935
Hall Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver, Manganese	Past Producer
O'Conner	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Clipper Group	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Cowden Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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
Denio Junction	3.7 miles	19
Denio	4.0 miles	19
Dyke	27.0 miles	19
Quinn River Crossing	29.4 miles	19
Varyville (historical)	32.4 miles	16
Happy Creek Station	38.1 miles	17
Cordero	46.7 miles	16
McDermitt	51.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 857793. 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.