Scraper Springs, Nevada

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Mountain City census division. The Survey maps it on the Scraper Springs quadrangle.

Scraper Springs within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS McDermitt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS McDermitt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Scraper Springs quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Tuscarora quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Scraper Springs between 1993 and 2008, burning about 23,337 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	3

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
18 September 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Elko District Office	SOLDIERCAP
16 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	887 acres	Elko District Office	GREEN MONSTER
12 August 2001	Natural	21,188 acres	Elko District Office	BUFFALOCMP
10 August 1993	Natural	75 acres	Elko District Office	SCRAPER
30 July 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	585 acres	Elko District Office	LITTLE ONE
20 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	601 acres	Elko District Office	SQUAW VLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Scraper Springs: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Chlorine. 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
	Zunyite Lode	Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Chlorine	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Elko 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
Midas	8.9 miles	8
Summit (historical)	10.5 miles	8
Dutton (historical)	10.7 miles	7
Fairlawn (historical)	12.5 miles	8
Good Hope (historical)	12.8 miles	7
Old Tuscarora (historical)	23.1 miles	10
Tuscarora	24.4 miles	10
Cornucopia (historical)	24.7 miles	10

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 Q122558436

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 856134. 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.