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Shores, Nevada

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89835. The Survey maps it on the Harris Canyon quadrangle.

Shores within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Shores between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreElko District OfficeSTROBE
10 August 2011Naturalunder an acreElko District Office104
1 August 2000Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficePRIMROSE
5 July 2001Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeDORINDA 1
4 July 2013Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeMONARCH
4 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreElko District OfficeMM 110
16 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreElko District OfficeCAR
10 June 1992Natural1.0 acresElko District OfficeHWY 93 110

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shores: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite. 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
Aslett Barite MillBarium-BaritePast Producer1977
Chromalloy MineBarium-BaritePast ProducerBarite
Dry Creek MillBarium-BariteProducer1978

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shores in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2013Flash FloodShores$1,000NDOT Dispatch reported that crews on highway 93 saw flooding on O'Neil Basin road.|Property damage is estimated.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindShores-Station (RSCN2) Rock Spring Creek, 18 ESE Contact. Elevation 5427 feet.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindShores-Rock Spring Creek Raws (RSCN2), Elevation 5427 feet.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindShores-The Rock Spring Creek RAWS site measured a wind gust to 65 mph.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindShores-no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindShores-no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindShores-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Schoer Place7.9 miles11
Wilkins8.3 miles9
Henry10.9 miles9
Riverside (historical)12.9 miles9
Contact16.0 miles11
Afton (historical)17.3 miles9
Melandco17.8 miles10
Morlan (historical)19.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856136. 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.