Tungsten, Nevada

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Imlay census division. It lies near Springer Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cosgrave quadrangle.

Tungsten within Pershing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1931 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000
1935 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1939 USGS Eugene Mountains Area quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1942 USGS Eugene Mountains Area quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Lovelock quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Woody Canyon quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Eugene Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Tungsten between 1992 and 2018, burning about 95,091 acres in total. 11 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	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
6 August 1999	Natural	7,224 acres	Winnemucca District Office	EUGENE
4 August 1999	Natural	1,860 acres	Winnemucca District Office	TUNNELCAMP
23 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	BONITA
23 August 1999	Natural	6,028 acres	Winnemucca District Office	TUNG HOUSE
16 August 2016	Natural	2,095 acres	Winnemucca District Office	MILL CREEK
14 August 1998	Natural	13,708 acres	Winnemucca District Office	KEYSTONE
9 July 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1,789 acres	Winnemucca District Office	TUNGSTON
6 July 2007	Natural	61,951 acres	Winnemucca District Office	TUNGSTEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pershing 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 Tungsten: 22 past producers, 12 occurrences, 12 producers, 10 prospects. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver, Gold. 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
Danner gold Property	Gold, Tungsten, Zinc, Molybdenum	Producer	1917, 1950
Forge	Tungsten, Molybdenum, Iron	Occurrence
Humboldt-Springer	Tungsten, Molybdenum, Manganese, Vanadium, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	1906
Keystone Mine	Tungsten, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Keystone Mines	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper, Tungsten	Producer	1872
Marble Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Mill City District	Molybdenum, Tungsten	Producer	1917, 1918
Mill City Tungsten Mine	Tungsten, Molybdenum, Silver, Gold, Copper, Bismuth	Producer	1917, 1918, 1982
Nevada-Massachusettes Mine	Tungsten, Silver, Gold	Producer	Vein
Silver Occurrence	Silver	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pershing 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
Central (historical)	0.5 miles	19
Raspberry Creek (historical)	5.6 miles	19
Cosgrave	5.9 miles	19
Lander City (historical)	6.0 miles	22
Mill City	7.2 miles	22
Neptune City (historical)	7.7 miles	22
Imlay	8.3 miles	17
Dun Glen (historical)	11.1 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856157. 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.