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Unionville, Nevada

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Imlay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89418. It lies near Peru Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Unionville quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Unionville within Pershing County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Unionville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,330 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
12 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,571 acresWinnemucca District OfficeCOTTONWOOD
7 August 2001Natural1.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeKYLE
4 August 2011Natural1.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeJOHN BROWN
4 August 2011Naturalunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeTHUNDER MOUNTAIN
24 August 1999Natural5.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeRIVER
17 August 2020Naturalunder an acrePershing CountyUNIONVILLE ASSIST
12 August 2001Natural1,500 acresWinnemucca District OfficePERU
31 July 2014Naturalunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeCOYOTE 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pershing County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Unionville: 27 past producers, 10 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 3 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Antimony, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arizona MineSilver, Tungsten, Copper, Lead, Gold, AntimonyPast Producer1862, 1965
Arizona MineSilver, Tungsten, Lead, Gold, Copper, AntimonyPast Producer
Black Warrior MineAntimony, Silver, Gold, Copper, ZincPast Producer1870
Bloody Canyon MineAntimony, Silver, Iron, LeadProducer1868, 1871
Bluebird ClaimsSilver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Barium-BariteOccurrenceVein
ChipmunkGold, Lead, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Inskip MineSilver, Lead, CopperPast ProducerVein
Lincoln Hill DumortieriteAntimony, Silver, AluminumOccurrenceDumortierite
Lucky Dog MineSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Antimony, MolybdenumPast ProducerVein
Lucky Dog MineSilver, Gold, AntimonyPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pershing County

Storms near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Unionville in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindUnionville-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Vanderwater (historical)6.8 miles16
Star City (historical)6.9 miles18
Stevensville (historical)7.3 miles16
Fitting7.6 miles16
Rye Patch9.0 miles16
Panama9.4 miles16
Lima (historical)9.5 miles16
Twain9.5 miles18

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 UnionvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14705293The 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 856414. 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.