Rhyolite, Nevada

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Bullfrog Mine, Rhyolitefederal building survey, 81 photographs

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.

• 1908 USGS Furnace Creek quadrangle1:250000
• 1910 USGS Furnace Creek quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1942 USGS Bullfrog quadrangle1:125000
• 1948 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Bullfrog quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Beatty quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1987 USGS Beatty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rhyolite between 1998 and 2014, burning about 3,697 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bullfrog (historical)
• Beatty
• Original (historical)
• Gold Bar (historical)
• Gold Center
• Fluorine (historical)

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 77 workings within 5 miles of Rhyolite: 30 past producers, 21 prospects, 15 occurrences, 10 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, 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.

Every working recorded in Nye County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rhyolite in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2015: 1 lightning, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Nye County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 845627. 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.

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.