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Valley View, Nevada

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Tonopah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89049. It lies near Gold Hill. The Survey maps it on the Tonopah quadrangle.

Valley View within Nye County

On record in Valley View

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 45 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Nye County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Valley View in 2007, burning under an acre in total. None 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/undetermined1

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
29 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeTONOPAH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 100 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 100 workings within 5 miles of Valley View: 49 past producers, 29 occurrences, 13 unknowns, 6 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Uranium, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Amalgamated PlacersTin, Gold, TungstenUnknown
B.C.H. Minerals Co. PropertyGold, Silver, PlatinumOccurrenceGold
Brougher Divide MineMercury, Gold, Copper, Silver, MolybdenumPast Producer
ConnollyStone, DimensionUnknown
Desert Queen ShaftTungsten, Silver, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Divide Extension Shaft & LodeSilver, Molybdenum, Mercury, Manganese, Gold, Barium-BariteUnknown
Garibaldi ClaimsUranium, MolybdenumOccurrenceUnknown
JewessSilver, Zinc, Molybdenum, Lead, Gold, Arsenic, Barium-BariteUnknown
Lambertucci PropertyUranium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Molybdenum, ClayOccurrenceKaolinite
Lower Dry CottonwoodSilver, Lead, Copper, Gemstone, Sapphire, GoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Nye 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
Tonopah0.3 miles18
Tonogold (historical)4.8 miles15
Frazier Wells (historical)6.4 miles15
Maggie Blues (historical)14.6 miles15
Hannapah (historical)16.8 miles9
Liberty (historical)16.8 miles15
Volcano (historical)17.1 miles9
Potomic (historical)18.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 856162. 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.