BlockShafter, Nevada
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Montello census division. The Survey maps it on the Shafter quadrangle. It stands 5,594 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Shafter quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wendover quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Shafter in 1997, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Elko District Office | SILVER Z |
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.
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 Shafter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6547547 | 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 847479. 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.