Perth, Nevada

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Lovelock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89419. The Survey maps it on the West of Lovelock quadrangle.

Perth within Pershing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1931 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000
1935 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Toulon quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1959 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS West of Lovelock quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Perth between 2013 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
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 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pershing County	MM 102
29 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 99
28 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	RESERVATION
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 103
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 104B
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 104
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 105B
5 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 99

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pershing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Perth: 10 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Perlite. 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
Decomposed Granite	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Granite Point	Perlite	Unknown
Perlite Deposit	Perlite	Occurrence
Silver Prospect	Silver	Past Producer
Unnamed Silver Prospect	Silver	Occurrence	Vein
De Braga Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Pershing 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
Granite Point	4.1 miles	17
Lovelock	4.1 miles	16
Toulon	8.3 miles	17
Kodak	8.5 miles	16
Colado	10.3 miles	16
Toy (historical)	11.4 miles	17
Browns Station (historical)	11.6 miles	17
Loring (historical)	11.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 858135. 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.