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Tempiute, Nevada

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Alamo census division. The Survey maps it on the Tempiute Mountain North quadrangle.

Tempiute within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Tempiute between 2000 and 2018, burning about 138 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5

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
3 August 2000Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeTEMPIUTE
29 August 2001Natural4.0 acresEly District OfficeTEMPIUTE
2 August 2018Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeNAT OUT SEVENTEEN
23 July 2006Natural129 acresEly District OfficeEGYPT
20 July 2013Natural5.0 acresEly District OfficeSAVIO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Tempiute: 11 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Silver, Zinc, Uranium, Zeolites. 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
Johnson ClaimsSilver, Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite, ZincProducer1865
Johnson ClaimsSilver, Copper, Lead, Barium-BariteProspect
Kinsey ClaimsSilver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Manganese, IronPast Producer1865
NBMG Sample Site 1461Uranium, ZeolitesOccurrence1865
New Tempiute MineTungsten, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, BismuthProducer1916
New Tempiute MineTungsten, Zinc, Silver, Molybdenum, Bismuth, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1977
North Tem Piute MineTungsten, Zinc, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1928, 1941
Schofield MineTungsten, Molybdenum, Zinc, Fluorine-FluoriteProducer1928, 1938
Section 9 ShaftUranium, ZeolitesProspect
Tem Piute Silver Mine Silver MineSilver, Antimony, Arsenic, CopperPast Producer1868, 1869, 1935

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tempiute in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
September 2013Flash FloodTempiute$5,000Highway 375 was washed out at Lincoln County mile marker 23.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Rachel5.7 miles12
Sundown9.1 miles13
Logan (historical)13.2 miles9
Groom (historical)17.4 miles11
Freiburg (historical)18.9 miles10
Hiko22.2 miles10
Crystal Springs22.9 miles10
Ash Springs26.9 miles12

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 TempiuteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60785619The 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 845975. 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.