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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.

Schurz within Mineral County

Population over time

2 figures

Schurz 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.

YearPeople Change
2010658
2020656-2 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

Photographs

8 photographs, 2022

Taken 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.

A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
A portion of Sportsman's Beach on Walker Lake, near the small town of Schurz (named after onetime Union general and later U.S. interior secretary Carl Schurz) on the Walker River Indian Reservation in remote western Nevada
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

5 since 1995

Regional 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 burning2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2000Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresCarson City District OfficeWNA 22
25 July 2009Naturalunder an acreCarson City District OfficeWNA 5
8 April 2000Debris and open burning110 acresWestern Nevada AgencySCHURZ
5 April 2002Misuse of fire by a minor12 acresCarson City District OfficeWNA 3
25 April 1995Debris and open burning90 acresCarson City District OfficeBIA 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mineral 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lincoln No. 1Lead, ZincPast Producer
EstherCopper, LeadPast Producer
HowardTungstenUnknown
Howard MineTungstenPast ProducerScheelite
Pot O GoldCopperProspect

Every working recorded in Mineral County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2004Flash FloodSchurz-As a result of heavy rainfall, rocks (some 8 to 12 inches in diameter) were washed onto U.S. Hwy. 95 near Schurz.

Every storm recorded in Mineral 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
Granite (historical)5.9 miles20
Mountain View (historical)7.0 miles20
Reservation (historical)8.6 miles24
Loma (historical)9.4 miles24
Copper Hill (historical)9.7 miles20
Copper Run9.9 miles20
Avalon13.3 miles20
Rand (historical)14.1 miles20

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 SchurzAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q679219The 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.