Shannon, Nevada

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Beowawe census division. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Hill SW quadrangle.

Shannon within Eureka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1937 USGS Mineral Hill quadrangle1:48000
1937 USGS Mineral Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Mineral Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Mineral Hill SW quadrangle1:24000
1987 USGS Crescent Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Shannon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,646 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 2 were 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	HENDERSON
22 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	JD
20 September 1999	Natural	300 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	RYE PATCH
2 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	TABLE MTN.
17 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	ALPHA
11 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	2 TREE
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	210 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	JD
4 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	NO4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eureka 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
Mineral	5.1 miles	15
Alpha	6.2 miles	15
Blackburn	9.0 miles	15
White (historical)	12.1 miles	19
Romano (historical)	13.1 miles	19
Buckhorn	15.7 miles	11
Tonkin	15.7 miles	19
Corwin	16.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 858179. 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.