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Skyland, Nevada

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Zephyr Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89448. It stands on Lincoln Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glenbrook quadrangle. 328 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,260 feet above sea level.

Skyland within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Skyland fell from 376 to 328 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
2010376
2020328-48 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 30 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

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Skyland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 20 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
Natural46
Recreation and ceremony40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Arson/incendiarism20
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitHOLLY
8 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitKAHLE
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named
7 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitLIBRARY
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitKAHLE 1
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitLOOP
29 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitVAN SICKLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Skyland: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Lakeridge1.0 miles30
Lincoln Park1.2 miles30
Zephyr Cove1.5 miles30
Round Hill2.2 miles34
Elk Point2.5 miles34
Hobart (historical)2.8 miles34
Logan Creek Estates3.0 miles30
Tahoe Village3.7 miles34

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 SkylandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5395166The 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 861402. 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.