Stewarts Point, Nevada

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89040. It stands on Slim Creek. The Survey maps it on the Valley of Fire East quadrangle.

Stewarts Point within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1886 USGS Saint Thomas quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1893 USGS Saint Thomas quadrangle1:250000
1926 USGS Bonelli quadrangle1:96000
1953 USGS Overton Beach quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Valley of Fire East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Lake Mead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Stewarts Point between 1992 and 2016, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3
Fireworks	3
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
1 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	MM 46
8 August 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	BLUE POINT
28 August 1996	Other causes	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	JABIP 2
4 July 2010	Fireworks	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	STEWARTS
20 July 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	FIN
2 July 2007	Fireworks	3.3 acres	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	ROGER SPRINGS
18 July 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	PALCETS
15 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	CREOSOTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Stewarts Point: 4 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Sodium. 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
Stewart Property	Sodium	Prospect
Big Cliff Mine	Salt	Past Producer
Calico Salt Mine	Salt	Past Producer
Salt Cove Salt Domes	Salt	Occurrence
Salt Mine	Salt	Past Producer
Salvation Salt Mine	Salt	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Echo Bay	5.0 miles	22
Saint Thomas (historical)	6.2 miles	22
Lost City (historical)	7.6 miles	23
Kaolin (historical)	8.7 miles	21
Copper City (historical)	11.3 miles	21
Overton	11.4 miles	21
Glassand	12.5 miles	21
Old Overton (historical)	12.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 849314. 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.