Uvada, Nevada

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Baker census division. The Survey maps it on the Skinner Canyon quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Uvada within White Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Skinner Canyon quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Kern Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Uvada (historical) between 1999 and 2014, burning about 468 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
Natural	5

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
2 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	HIGHWAY
9 August 1999	Natural	25 acres	Ely District Office	PLEASANT
30 July 2001	Natural	400 acres	Ely District Office	MALLORY
12 April 2014	Natural	36 acres	Ely District Office	SKINNER
12 April 2014	Natural	7.0 acres	Ely District Office	NORMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Uvada (historical): 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Uranium, Iron, Tungsten, Lead. 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
Location #7 of Sayeed	Iron, Tungsten	Occurrence
Pleasant Valley Prospects	Lead, Copper, Silver	Unknown
Regan Tungsten Prospects	Tungsten, Bismuth, Fluorine-Fluorite	Unknown
Unknown	Uranium, Silver, Gold, Copper	Prospect
Unknown Shaft	Uranium, Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Underground
Granite Claims	Tungsten	Occurrence	Scheelite
Snow Bank	Tungsten	Unknown
Snow Bank Property	Tungsten	Past Producer	1972
Snow White Claims	Tungsten	Occurrence	Contact Metamorphic
Yellow Jacket Claims	Tungsten	Occurrence

Every working recorded in White Pine 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
Pleasant Valley (historical)	1.2 miles	11
Parker (historical)	3.4 miles	11
Tungstonia (historical)	6.1 miles	11
Glencoe (historical)	8.3 miles	11
Regan (historical)	10.3 miles	11
Tippett	20.9 miles	11
Broadway (historical)	22.8 miles	9
Stonehouse	27.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 851820. 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.