Raspberry Creek, Nevada

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Imlay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89418. It stands on Raspberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cosgrave quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Raspberry Creek within Pershing 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.

1931 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000
1935 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1939 USGS Eugene Mountains Area quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1942 USGS Eugene Mountains Area quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Cosgrave quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Eugene Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Raspberry Creek (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 58,755 acres in total. 22 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	2

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
5 September 1995	Natural	174 acres	Winnemucca District Office	COSGRAVE
25 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	RIM FIRE
23 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	612 acres	Winnemucca District Office	ROSE CREEK
2 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	4.7 acres	Winnemucca District Office	MM 161
12 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.3 acres	Winnemucca District Office	MM 156 1
12 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Winnemucca District Office	MM 155
8 August 1992	Smoking	2.0 acres	Winnemucca District Office	I80MM158
4 August 1999	Natural	10,619 acres	Winnemucca District Office	CYANCO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pershing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Raspberry Creek (historical): 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Silver, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Berry Prospect	Gold, Mercury	Prospect
Cosgrave Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tallulah Mine	Silver, Gold, Antimony, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1865
Tallulah Mine	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
NBMG Sample Site 2666	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
NBMG Sample Site 2667	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
T P L Sutton Mine	Tungsten	Past Producer
Unnamed Tungsten Occurrence	Tungsten	Occurrence
Cedar	Gold	Occurrence
Crofoot Project	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Pershing 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
Cosgrave	0.5 miles	19
Tungsten	5.6 miles	19
Neptune City (historical)	5.9 miles	22
Central (historical)	6.0 miles	19
Dun Glen (historical)	6.2 miles	21
Mill City	7.8 miles	22
Lander City (historical)	9.2 miles	22
Bonnie Briar (historical)	10.9 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 846122. 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.