Ute, Nevada
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Clark census division. The Survey maps it on the Ute quadrangle. It stands 1,932 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Saint Thomas quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1893 USGS Saint Thomas quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Moapa quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Ute quadrangle1:24000
- 1987 USGS Overton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
2 photographs, 1943Taken 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.
Henle, Fritz, 1943. Library of Congress
Henle, Fritz, 1943. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
13 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Ute between 1998 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | BIA 1 MM7 |
| 4 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | BIA 4 |
| 4 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | BIA 3 FIREWORKS |
| 4 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | BIA 3 |
| 29 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | MM 80 |
| 7 June 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area | ROX |
| 4 June 2014 | Debris and open burning | 43 acres | Southern Paiute Agency | BIA 2 MOAPA |
| 4 June 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southern Nevada District Office | BIA 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ute: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ute in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 heavy rain, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Ute | $1,000 | Eastbound Ute Rd was closed at I-15 due to flooding. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Ute | - | Heavy rain and hail contributed to a motorcycle crash on I-15 near mile marker 81. One man was killed. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal (historical) | 5.1 miles | 20 | |
| West Point (historical) | 7.6 miles | 20 | |
| Silver City (historical) | 8.9 miles | 20 | |
| Moapa | 9.1 miles | 20 | |
| Hupton (historical) | 9.8 miles | 20 | |
| Arrowhead | 9.8 miles | 20 | |
| Dry Lake | 10.1 miles | 21 | |
| Moapa Town | 10.3 miles | 20 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q28956937 | The 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 856160. 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.








