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Roach, Nevada

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89019. It stands on Roach Lake. The Survey maps it on the Roach quadrangle.

Roach within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1940

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.

Approach to Pine Creek Canyon. Clark County, Nevada
Approach to Pine Creek Canyon. Clark County, Nevada
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Roach between 1992 and 2016, burning about 2 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictMINE
23 August 2009Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeDEVIL
20 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeRAINBOW
14 August 2015Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeMILE MARKER 9
5 July 2011Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeMM6
30 July 2003Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeJEAN
7 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 37
6 June 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictSTUCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Roach: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Stateline PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
White HatGoldProspect
Copper Hill ClaimsCopperOccurrence1974
Prospect No. 5CopperProspect

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roach in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2018Flash FloodRoach$2,000,000Flooding caused major damage to Nipton Road between mile markers 2 and 6. The road will be closed for months.
September 2017Flash FloodRoach$5,000Nipton Road was closed to Highway 95 due to flooding. This event continued into California.
August 2009Flash FloodRoach-Nipton Road (NV Highway 164) was closed due to flooding.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRoach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Primm2.5 miles27
Borax5.2 miles27
Jean9.7 miles25
Root Camp (historical)13.7 miles27
Goodsprings13.8 miles26
Crescent (historical)14.1 miles27
Platina (historical)16.1 miles27
Ripley16.8 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 848632. 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.