Red Butte, Nevada

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Winnemucca census division. The Survey maps it on the Red Butte quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Red Butte within Humboldt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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
1962 USGS Vya quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS King Lear Peak quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Jackson Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Red Butte quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Red Butte (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 11 acres in total. 5 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
8 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	NAVAJO
16 August 2018	Natural	5.1 acres	Winnemucca District Office	NAVAJO PEAK
23 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	SHAWNEE
2 June 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Winnemucca District Office	JACKSON 2
2 June 2007	Natural	3.0 acres	Winnemucca District Office	JACKSON 1
27 May 1993	Smoking	1.0 acres	Winnemucca District Office	CLAPPER
24 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	BONITA SPRINGS

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Red Butte (historical): 10 prospects, 9 past producers, 6 occurrences, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron, 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
Bull Iron Prospect	Iron, Copper, Silver	Prospect
Copper Mine	Silver, Gold, Antimony, Copper, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	Vein
Lillian	Gold, Silver, Iron, Copper	Prospect
NBMG Sample Site 2418	Copper, Manganese, Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Surface/Underground
NBMG Sample Site 2423	Gold, Copper, Antimony, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Arsenic, Barium-Barite, Cadmium	Occurrence	Chrysocolla, Malachite
Prodigal Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Arsenic, Antimony	Past Producer
Rattlesnake Canyon Prospect	Mercury, Copper, Iron	Past Producer	1909, 1945
Red Butte District	Copper, Antimony, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	VEINS AND DISSEMINATIONS
Red Butte Mine	Copper, Lead, Barium-Barite, Silver, Zinc	Prospect
Red Butte Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	1907

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
Jungo (historical)	16.9 miles	14
Sulphur	18.0 miles	15
Venado (historical)	21.3 miles	14
Happy Creek Station	27.7 miles	17
Varyville (historical)	29.1 miles	16
Pronto	30.3 miles	14
Dyke	32.2 miles	19
Quinn River Crossing	33.3 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 847730. 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.