Sand Pass, Nevada

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Pyramid Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89424. The Survey maps it on the Sand Pass quadrangle.

Sand Pass within Washoe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 18 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.

1886 USGS Granite Range quadrangle1:250000
1894 USGS Granite Range quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
1955 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Sand Pass quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Kumiva Peak quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Sand Pass between 1993 and 2017, burning about 17,947 acres in total. 7 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	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Firearms and explosives use	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
13 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Northern California District	SAND
13 September 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Northern California District	BONHAM
1 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Carson City District Office	PASS
10 August 1993	Natural	2.0 acres	Northern California District	RESTRICTED
7 July 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Carson City District Office	WNA 9
6 July 2007	Natural	675 acres	Carson City District Office	WNA 8
28 July 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.4 acres	Carson City District Office	RAIL
24 July 2017	Natural	28 acres	Northern California District	R18 MISSION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washoe County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sand Pass: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Dusty Point	Clay	Past Producer
Terraced Hills Deposit	Clay	Past Producer	1947
Terraced Hills Halloysite	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washoe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sano	7.5 miles	19
Zenobia	7.6 miles	17
Flanigan	8.5 miles	20
Pyramid	13.5 miles	18
Smoke Creek	14.1 miles	19
Sheepshead	15.4 miles	18
Reynard	18.2 miles	18
Sutcliffe	23.5 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 845650. 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.