Starr, Nevada

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Battle Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89820. It lies near Dean Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Mount Lewis quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Starr within Lander County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1949 USGS Mt. Lewis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Mt. Lewis quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Mt. Lewis quadrangle1:24000
1987 USGS Crescent Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Starr (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 40,105 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 1 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
2 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	LEWIS CYN.
10 September 1996	Natural	250 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	ROCKY
10 September 1996	Natural	300 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	LEWIS
9 August 2020	Natural	8.8 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	CRIPPEN
8 August 2001	Natural	103 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	BENS PEAK
26 August 1996	Natural	35,932 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	SLAVEN II
26 August 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	SLAVEN
2 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	HILLTOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lander County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of Starr (historical): 35 past producers, 11 producers, 7 prospects, 6 occurrences. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Betty O'Neal	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Betty O'Neal Mine	Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Producer	1880
Blue Dick	Antimony, Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Blue Dick Antimony Mine	Antimony, Silver, Gold, Selenium	Producer	Stibnite
Celestine O'Neal	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Dean Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Plant	1990
Dean Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Copper	Past Producer	vein
Eagle-Monitor Claims	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Iron	Producer	1867
Florence	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Iron	Past Producer	Vein
Golden Rule	Gold, Bismuth	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lander 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
Middletown (historical)	0.1 miles	12
Dean (historical)	1.3 miles	12
Betty O'Neal (historical)	1.8 miles	12
Pittsburgh (historical)	2.7 miles	12
Maysville (historical)	3.3 miles	12
Hilltop	4.1 miles	12
Mud Springs (historical)	8.2 miles	13
Bailey (historical)	10.4 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 863901. 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.