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Prince, Nevada

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Pioche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89043. The Survey maps it on the Pioche quadrangle.

Prince within Lincoln 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.

Fires near this place

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Prince between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,433 acres in total. 96 started naturally. 7 were 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
Natural96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2006Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeCASELTON
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeRED CONE
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficePANAM
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeNATURAL OUT 13
26 September 2004Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeDONUT
16 September 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeEDDIE B
15 September 2011Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeHAMLIGHT
12 September 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSTEEP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 131 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 131 workings within 5 miles of Prince: 83 past producers, 21 occurrences, 21 prospects, 3 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Silver, Lead, Gold. 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
Abe Lincoln MineLead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Manganese, IronPast Producer1867, 1885
Agricultural Minerals PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant1975
Alps MineSilver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, AntimonyPast Producer1870, 1871
Arcane Mining Co. PropertyLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Black Prince MineSilver, Gold, Lead, Manganese, ZincPast ProducerWad
Black Prince MineZinc, Silver, Manganese, Lead, GoldPast Producer1952
Blue Queen ClaimsZinc, Silver, Copper, LeadProspect
Bumagin ShaftGold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, CopperProspect
California-Pioche ShaftGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Manganese, AntimonyPast ProducerBarite, Chalcopyrite, Galena
California-Pioche ShaftGold, Silver, Manganese, LeadProspect

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prince in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Flash FloodPrince$50,000Water, rocks, and debris flowed over Highway 93 and many secondary roads in Pioche, and roads in Caselton were damaged by flooding.
July 2018Flash FloodPrince$1,000Highway 320 was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Princeton (historical)0.8 miles19
Caselton Heights1.0 miles19
Caselton1.4 miles19
Pioche2.4 miles19
Highland (historical)3.9 miles17
Mendha4.4 miles17
Big Trees4.6 miles17
Bullionville (historical)7.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 858260. 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.