Quinn River Crossing, Nevada

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Summit Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89445. It stands on Bilk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quinn River Crossing quadrangle.

Quinn River Crossing within Humboldt 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.

1886 USGS Disaster quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Disaster quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Quinn River Crossing quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1962 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Denio quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings
1990 USGS Quinn River Crossing quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Quinn River Crossing between 1996 and 2018, burning about 2,190 acres in total. 3 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	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	DUFFERINA
5 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	REST AREA
26 August 1996	Natural	25 acres	Winnemucca District Office	MAGGIE
23 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 40
8 July 2017	Natural	1,552 acres	Winnemucca District Office	HAPPY CREEK
6 July 2007	Natural	611 acres	Winnemucca District Office	QUINN RIVER
23 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 40
21 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 34

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Dyke	7.3 miles	19
Happy Creek Station	8.7 miles	17
Varyville (historical)	20.6 miles	16
Denio Junction	27.8 miles	19
Overton (historical)	29.4 miles	19
Denio	30.4 miles	19
Awakening	32.9 miles	16
Red Butte (historical)	33.3 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122566428

The 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 858147. 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.