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Round Mountain, Nevada

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Round Mountain census division. It stands on Round Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Round Mountain quadrangle. It stands 6,391 feet above sea level.

Round Mountain within Nye County

On record in Round Mountain

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

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Round Mountain: 39 occurrences, 33 past producers, 6 prospects, 4 unknowns. 5 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Antimony Lode ProspectAntimony, Arsenic, LeadPast ProducerVein
Charles PropertySilver, Gold, ManganeseOccurrenceGold
Crc Nos. 1-164Gold, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Bismuth, AntimonyOccurrence
Gold Hill DepositGold, Silver, Tungsten, Arsenic, Antimony, Thallium, Mercury, Molybdenum, Fluorine-Fluorite, ManganeseProducer1910, 1960
Green Top ClaimUranium, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Green Top ClaimSilver, Copper, UraniumOccurrenceVein
Low Risk Claim GroupGold, Tungsten, Mill Concentrate, UraniumOccurrence
Lucky Seven MineTungsten, Mill ConcentrateOccurrence
PrussianSilver, Antimony, GoldPast Producer
Prussian South MineSilver, Antimony, Lead, Copper, ZincPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Freibergite, Galena, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Nye 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
Steigmeyer Mill1.7 miles13
Jefferson (historical)4.5 miles8
Hadley5.1 miles13
Van Ness (historical)6.6 miles8
Barcelona (historical)7.1 miles8
Barcelona Summit7.1 miles8
Jett (historical)7.4 miles13
Carvers7.9 miles14

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on Round MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3311563The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 861188. 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.

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.