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Valmy, Nevada

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Golconda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89438. The Survey maps it on the Valmy quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,511 feet above sea level.

Valmy within Humboldt County

Population over time

2 figures

Valmy fell from 37 to 26 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
201037
202026-11 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Valmy between 1993 and 2018, burning about 2,054 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance19 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMOTE
9 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMOTEBAM
8 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeFREEWAY
17 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeSIDING
8 August 2002Natural3.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeVVFD ASS 1
6 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District Office214
17 August 1999Natural6.0 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMM126
8 July 2006Naturalunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMARIGOLD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Valmy: 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Mercury, Molybdenum. 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
Copper OccurrenceCopperUnknown
Iron CanyonMolybdenumUnknown
Marigold MineGold, Silver, MercuryPlant1930, 1989
Stonehouse DepositGold, Silver, Molybdenum, Arsenic, Antimony, Mercury, ThalliumProspect1988
Tungsten AssociatesTungstenPast Producer
Unnamed Quartzite OccurrenceSilicaOccurrence
HsGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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
Stone House (historical)3.9 miles20
Ellison4.2 miles20
Knight7.9 miles19
Herrin8.2 miles19
Iron Point (historical)13.3 miles22
Red House15.5 miles19
Comus17.8 miles16
Preble19.2 miles23

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 ValmyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7912515The 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 845722. 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.