BlockRachel, Nevada
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Alamo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89001. The Survey maps it on the Tempiute Mountain North quadrangle. 48 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,856 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRachel fell from 54 to 48 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 54 | |
| 2020 | 48 | -6 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1942 USGS Penoyer Valley quadrangle1:125000
- 1954 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1959 USGS Caliente quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Tempiute Mtn quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Tempiute Mountain North quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Timpahute Range quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rachel: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper, Uranium, Zeolites, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Dale Mine | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| NBMG Sample Site 1461 | Uranium, Zeolites | Occurrence | 1865 | |
| Section 9 Shaft | Uranium, Zeolites | Prospect |
Storms near this place
7 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rachel in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Rachel | $20,000 | Water two to three feet deep damaged Highway 375 3 miles NW of Rachel, and water got into basements of two residences in Rachel. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Rachel | $2,000 | Highway 375 was covered with water and debris. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Rachel | $1,000 | Highway 375 was flooded and closed just east of the Nye/Lincoln county line. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rachel | - | A spotter measured a wind gust to 84 mph as a wall of dust rolled in ahead of a thunderstorm. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rachel | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rachel | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rachel | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sundown | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Tempiute | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Groom (historical) | 16.7 miles | 11 | |
| Logan (historical) | 18.8 miles | 9 | |
| Freiburg (historical) | 21.0 miles | 10 | |
| Hiko | 27.7 miles | 10 | |
| Crystal Springs | 28.1 miles | 10 | |
| Ash Springs | 31.8 miles | 12 |
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 Rachel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1536966 | 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 851195. 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.
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.