Van Ness, Nevada

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Round Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89045. It lies near Spanish Peak. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Van Ness within Nye County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Jefferson quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Mount Jefferson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Van Ness (historical) between 2003 and 2017, burning about 44 acres 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/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
26 May 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	BARCELONA
3 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.4 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	SILVER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 90 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 90 workings within 5 miles of Van Ness (historical): 48 occurrences, 33 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Mercury, Tungsten. 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
Alma Claim Group	Copper, Zinc, Lead	Occurrence
Anatone-Meadow Canyon Gold Placers	Gold, Titanium	Occurrence
Antimony Lode Prospect	Antimony, Arsenic, Lead	Past Producer	Vein
Barcelona Mine	Silver, Molybdenum, Copper, Gold, Mercury	Producer	1866, 1870
Charles Property	Silver, Gold, Manganese	Occurrence	Gold
Enator Mine	Mercury, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	1928, 1929
Falcon Prospect	Tungsten, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Bismuth	Past Producer	1956
Flower Antimony Mine	Mercury, Selenium, Antimony	Occurrence	Cinnabar, Stibnite
Flower Quicksilver Mine	Mercury, Antimony, Selenium, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	1908
Hot No. 1 Mine	Uranium, Molybdenum, Manganese, Zinc, Beryllium, Lead	Occurrence	Molybdenite, Torbernite, Wulfenite

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Barcelona (historical)	1.1 miles	8
Barcelona Summit	1.2 miles	8
San Pedros	3.3 miles	8
Flowers Camp	3.5 miles	8
Jefferson (historical)	4.8 miles	8
Belmont	6.5 miles	8
Round Mountain	6.6 miles	13
Steigmeyer Mill	7.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 848170. 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.