BlockRuppes Place, Nevada
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Lund census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89317. The Survey maps it on the Lund quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1956 USGS Lund quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Lund quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Lund quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Duckwater quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Ruppes Place between 1996 and 2020, burning about 8,182 acres in total. 12 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 | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | NAT OUT 8 |
| 12 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | 4H |
| 12 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | GUMPJOHNS |
| 12 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | MM 53 |
| 11 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | ROBERTSON |
| 1 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | ROCK |
| 27 July 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | GOWEN |
| 26 July 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Ely District Office | COUNTYLINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lund | 7.6 miles | 6 | |
| Douglas | 8.2 miles | 6 | |
| Preston | 11.0 miles | 7 | |
| Stockville (historical) | 13.2 miles | 6 | |
| Barnes (historical) | 14.2 miles | 6 | |
| Willow Grove | 21.6 miles | 15 | |
| Ward (historical) | 24.4 miles | 16 | |
| Taylor (historical) | 30.0 miles | 18 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122569172 | The 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 856126. 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.