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Pequop, Nevada

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Montello census division. The Survey maps it on the Pequop quadrangle. It stands 6,142 feet above sea level.

Pequop 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pequop between 1999 and 2020, burning about 7,309 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.

Reported cause Fires
Natural6

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
7 August 2006Natural1,978 acresElko District OfficePEQUOP
3 August 1999Natural1.0 acresElko District OfficePEQUOPS
10 August 2020Natural24 acresElko District OfficeMARYS
3 July 2001Natural3,497 acresElko District OfficeW PEQUOPS
26 July 2009Natural510 acresElko District OfficeINDEPENDENCE
14 July 2007Natural1,299 acresElko District OfficePEQUOP SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pequop: 5 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Barium-Barite. 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
Rytting MineBarium-BariteOccurrence
Rytting MineBarium-BariteProspect
PequopPumiceOccurrence
Pequop SpringPumiceOccurrence
Pumice OccurrencePumiceUnknown
Pumice OccurrencePumiceOccurrence
South PequopPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pequop in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 hail. 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
June 1998HailPequop-A severe thunderstorm dropped dime size hail on Pequop Summit on Interstate 80. Hail covered roadway causing traffic accident.

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
Fenelon4.0 miles9
Holborn7.0 miles9
Toano (historical)10.6 miles10
Cobre12.4 miles11
Moor13.8 miles11
Melandco13.9 miles10
Oasis14.1 miles11
Loray15.3 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 PequopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6541289The 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 856339. 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.