Sutro, Nevada

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.

• 1891 USGS Carson quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Carson quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1893 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:125000
• 1950 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1952 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1959 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:62500
• 1967 USGS Flowery Peak quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1979 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Flowery Peak quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Sutro between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,142 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Johntown (historical)
• Silver City
• Twin Flat
• Carson Rapids City
• Dayton
• Eureka (historical)

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 189 workings within 5 miles of Sutro: 117 past producers, 41 prospects, 10 producers, 9 unknowns. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lyon County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856145. 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.