Schurz, Nevada
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Walker River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89427. The Survey maps it on the Schurz quadrangle. 656 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,127 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSchurz fell from 658 to 656 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 658 | |
| 2020 | 656 | -2 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1909 USGS Hawthorne quadrangle1:250000
- 1911 USGS Hawthorne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1915 USGS Hawthorne quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Schurz quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Schurz quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
8 photographs, 2022Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Schurz between 1995 and 2009, burning about 220 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Carson City District Office | WNA 22 |
| 25 July 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Carson City District Office | WNA 5 |
| 8 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 110 acres | Western Nevada Agency | SCHURZ |
| 5 April 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 acres | Carson City District Office | WNA 3 |
| 25 April 1995 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Carson City District Office | BIA 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Schurz: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln No. 1 | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Esther | Copper, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Howard | Tungsten | Unknown | ||
| Howard Mine | Tungsten | Past Producer | Scheelite | |
| Pot O Gold | Copper | Prospect |
Storms near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schurz in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 flash flood. 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 2004 | Flash Flood | Schurz | - | As a result of heavy rainfall, rocks (some 8 to 12 inches in diameter) were washed onto U.S. Hwy. 95 near Schurz. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Granite (historical) | 5.9 miles | 20 | |
| Mountain View (historical) | 7.0 miles | 20 | |
| Reservation (historical) | 8.6 miles | 24 | |
| Loma (historical) | 9.4 miles | 24 | |
| Copper Hill (historical) | 9.7 miles | 20 | |
| Copper Run | 9.9 miles | 20 | |
| Avalon | 13.3 miles | 20 | |
| Rand (historical) | 14.1 miles | 20 |
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 Schurz | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q679219 | 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 858175. 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.









