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Ursine, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Pioche census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89043. It lies near Dry Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Ursine quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Ursine within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Ursine fell from 91 to 62 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201091
202062-29 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Ursine between 1992 and 2018, burning about 9,398 acres in total. 95 started naturally. 2 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.

Reported cause Fires
Natural95
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 1993Debris and open burning1.5 acresEly District OfficeEAGLE VAL
7 September 2007Natural30 acresEly District OfficeDEJA VU
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeBUCK
28 September 2002Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeLONGCANYON
28 September 2002Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeROSE FIELD
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeCITIZEN
16 September 2008Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSTATELINE
13 September 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeIAMS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ursine: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Manganese, Barium-Barite, 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
DevlinSilverProspect
Horse Thief Spring ProspectsGold, Silver, Manganese, Barium-BariteProspect

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ursine in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 flash flood, 5 flood, 4 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
August 1997Flash FloodUrsine$100,000Heavy rain showers fell on a 9000 acre burn area in northeast Lincoln County and resulted in a flash flood which began in Camp Valley Creek and ended in Eagle Valley Canyon. Flood waters reached as high as 20 feet in places and swept through a ranch damaging property, machinery and hay stacks. The waters also washed out several sections of the road in Eagle Valley Canyon before they were contained in the Eagle Valley Reservoir three miles north of Ursine.
March 2023FloodUrsine$50,000Highway 322 was damaged due to flooding of the Meadow Valley Wash. The road fully reopened in late May.
March 2023FloodUrsine$25,000Spring Valley State Park was closed due to the Meadow Valley Wash flooding and damaging roads leading to the park.
March 2023FloodUrsine$25,000Access to the east side of Eagle Valley was cut off due to road damage from flooding of the Meadow Valley Wash.
August 1997Flash FloodUrsine$10,000The flash flood prone Eagle Valley Canyon was again reported to be running with water at 12:59 pm PST. By 2:45 pm PST, the water had made its way down the canyon and caused the Eagle Valley Reservoir to overflow its embankment. An estimated 3,000 fish were washed over the bank and left to die. State highway 322, between Pioche and Ursine was also flooded. The Lincoln County Sheriff reported the road closed for a few hours.
September 1997Flash FloodUrsine$5,000Thunderstorm rains produced yet another flash flood which swept down Camp Valley Creek and Eagle Canyon in northern Lincoln County. A wall of water estimated at 20 feet high rushed down Camp Valley Creek then fanned out and flooded the Pearson Ranch. Some fields were washed out and fences knocked down.
August 2024Flash FloodUrsine$1,000Highway 322 was flooded and impassable.
September 2023FloodUrsine$1,000Flooding of the Meadow Valley Wash deposited debris on roads in Eagle Valley. No road closures were needed.
May 2019FloodUrsine$1,000The Meadow Valley Wash flooded and closed Highway 322. The flooding continued for a couple of days until the wash receded.
September 2011Flash FloodUrsine$1,000Water and debris flowed across Highway 322.
July 2008Flash FloodUrsine-Highway 322 was washed out between mile markers 9 and 14.
July 2005Flash FloodUrsine-Water, mud, and rocks across Highway 322 on both sides of Ursine.
August 1997Flash FloodUrsine-Heavy thunderstorm rains caused another flash flood event in Camp Valley Creek and Eagle Canyon where flooding occurred less than a week earlier. The water took a similar course as the previous flood and there were no reports of injuries or additional damage.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindUrsine-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindUrsine-no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindUrsine-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindUrsine-no account filed
August 1998Flash FloodUrsine-no account filed

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
Rose Valley3.8 miles16
Newland (historical)4.3 miles5
Spring Valley (historical)4.3 miles5
Flat Nose7.8 miles16
Deer Lodge (historical)8.4 miles14
Fay (historical)9.3 miles14
Delmues (historical)9.8 miles16
Pioche13.1 miles19

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 UrsineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473197The 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 858226. 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.