Pronto, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Winnemucca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89445. The Survey maps it on the Pronto quadrangle.

Pronto within Humboldt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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
1959 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Pronto quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Eugene Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Pronto between 1992 and 2019, burning about 644 acres in total. 9 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	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
30 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	BLUE MOUNTAIN
30 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Winnemucca District Office	MM 173
24 August 2000	Natural	437 acres	Winnemucca District Office	BLUE MTN
2 August 2000	Natural	194 acres	Winnemucca District Office	PRONTO
10 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	BLUE
8 July 2006	Natural	7.0 acres	Winnemucca District Office	SAMPSON SPRINGS
7 July 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	RAGLAN
2 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	BLUE MOUNTAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Pronto: 12 prospects, 8 past producers, 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Arsenic. 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
A and H Claim	Gold, Silver, Lead, Barium-Barite, Arsenic	Occurrence	Gold
A and H Claim	Gold, Lead, Silver, Arsenic, Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Atlas Mine	Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Dutchman Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
J.B.J Claims	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Arsenic	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Gold
Jbj	Gold, Copper	Prospect
NBMG Sample Site 2628	Gold, Tungsten	Prospect
NBMG Sample Site 2628	Gold, Silver, Lead, Arsenic	Past Producer
NBMG Sample Site 2635	Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Arsenic	Occurrence	Gold
NBMG Sample Site 2635	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Arsenic	Prospect

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
Raglan	5.0 miles	20
Rose Creek	9.2 miles	20
Venado (historical)	10.1 miles	14
Barrett Springs (historical)	10.9 miles	14
Laurel (historical)	11.6 miles	14
Jungo (historical)	17.1 miles	14
Winnemucca	17.5 miles	22
Weso	20.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 845605. 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.