Stonehouse, Nevada

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Baker census division. It lies near Mud Springs Draw. The Survey maps it on the Stonehouse quadrangle.

Stonehouse within White Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Stonehouse quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Kern Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Stonehouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 407 acres in total. 10 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
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
3 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	GUARD
2 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	TIPPET
2 August 1992	Natural	130 acres	Ely District Office	SEAGLE
19 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	NAT OUT 4
16 August 1998	Natural	3.0 acres	Ely District Office	KINSLEY
8 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ely District Office	NATOUT1
4 July 1996	Natural	10 acres	Ely District Office	PONY. EXP.
27 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	USFS ASST 4- SIEGEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Stonehouse: 3 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Manganese, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Manganese, Lead. 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
Little Flower	Tungsten, Manganese, Lead	Past Producer	Lead, Scheelite
Little Flower	Tungsten, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
May Queen Group	Lead, Silver	Unknown
Siegel Mines	Manganese, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White Pine 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
Centerville (historical)	4.5 miles	11
Siegel (historical)	4.7 miles	11
Aurum (historical)	5.8 miles	11
Ruby Hill (historical)	9.3 miles	11
Tippett	11.8 miles	11
Muncy (historical)	12.4 miles	12
Melvin (historical)	15.1 miles	11
Warm Springs	16.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 862265. 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.