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Pine Grove, Nevada

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Smith Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89447. It lies near Sugarloaf. The Survey maps it on the Pine Grove Spring quadrangle. It stands 6,716 feet above sea level.

Pine Grove within Lyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
31 August 2000Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestPINE GROVE
30 August 1992Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National Forestnot named
3 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestPINE GROVE
23 July 2009Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestHALSEY
20 July 2018Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestSAND
18 July 2009Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestPINE 2
24 June 2020Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestTAYLOR SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Pine Grove: 14 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
W & P MineMolybdenum, CopperProspect
Wilson MineGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Cowboy MineTungsten, Lead, SilverPast Producer1941
Cowboy MineTungsten, Lead, SilverPast Producer1941
White Rose & White Rose No.1 ClaimsUraniumProspect
White Rose ProspectUraniumOccurrenceSedimentary
Horse Shoe Claims ?Gold, Silver, PerlitePast Producer1928
Pine Grove Hills DepositPerliteOccurrence
Section 32 AditGold, SilverPast ProducerPyrite
Sections 31 and 36 ProspectsGold, SilverOccurrence1866

Every working recorded in Lyon 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
Cambridge (historical)5.9 miles21
Wellington Springs6.3 miles22
Sulfur8.0 miles22
Wichman11.0 miles21
Tippecanoe (historical)11.5 miles22
Smith13.7 miles23
Hudson (historical)13.8 miles23
Wellington14.4 miles23

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 Pine GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48975947The 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 860956. 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.