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Sloan, Nevada

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89179. The Survey maps it on the Sloan quadrangle. It stands 2,825 feet above sea level.

Sloan within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

116 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Sloan between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,020 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Firearms and explosives use36
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural7
Fireworks6
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeSLOAN 24
30 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeST ROSE
29 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeSLOAN 27
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeSLOAN 3
18 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeSLOAN 26
17 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCCFD 5
16 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouthern Nevada District OfficeUPRR
14 September 2020Firearms and explosives useunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeSLOAN 25

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Sloan: 9 occurrences, 3 prospects, 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Silica, Magnesite, Calcium, Limestone, General. 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
Chemstar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Manske ClaimGold, SilverPast Producer
Sloan Limestone QuarryMagnesite, CalciumOccurrence1910, 1914
Sloan Quarry & MillLimestone, GeneralProducer
Arden QuarriesSilicaPast Producer
Bard DepositSilicaPast Producer
Jean-Sloan Area Locality 3UraniumProspect
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Locality 1UraniumProspect
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Locality 14UraniumOccurrence
Jean-Sloan Area Uranium Locality 4UraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sloan in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
July 1998LightningSloan5 hurtno account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSloan$2,000Thunderstorm outflow winds blew down one tree and split another in half.
August 2012Flash FloodSloan$1,000Up to a foot of water ran down a road in Sloan.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSloan-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSloan-no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSloan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Bard3.2 miles27
Erie5.1 miles26
Arden5.2 miles24
Exploration Peak Park5.6 miles24
Mountain's Edge5.8 miles24
Enterprise5.8 miles24
Boulder Junction9.5 miles24
Paradise11.2 miles24

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 SloanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709761The 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 845327. 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.