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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 27 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.
- 1910 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000
- 1912 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Roach Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Mesquite Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Roach quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1940Taken 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.
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
10 since 1992Regional 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 use | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Desert District | MINE |
| 23 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | DEVIL |
| 20 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | RAINBOW |
| 14 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | MILE MARKER 9 |
| 5 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | MM6 |
| 30 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | JEAN |
| 7 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Clark County Fire Department | CLRX 37 |
| 6 June 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Desert District | STUCK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stateline Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| White Hat | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Copper Hill Claims | Copper | Occurrence | 1974 | |
| Prospect No. 5 | Copper | Prospect |
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Roach | $2,000,000 | Flooding caused major damage to Nipton Road between mile markers 2 and 6. The road will be closed for months. |
| September 2017 | Flash Flood | Roach | $5,000 | Nipton Road was closed to Highway 95 due to flooding. This event continued into California. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Roach | - | Nipton Road (NV Highway 164) was closed due to flooding. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roach | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primm | 2.5 miles | 27 | |
| Borax | 5.2 miles | 27 | |
| Jean | 9.7 miles | 25 | |
| Root Camp (historical) | 13.7 miles | 27 | |
| Goodsprings | 13.8 miles | 26 | |
| Crescent (historical) | 14.1 miles | 27 | |
| Platina (historical) | 16.1 miles | 27 | |
| Ripley | 16.8 miles | 27 |
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.











