Wadsworth, Nevada
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Pyramid Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89442. The Survey maps it on the Wadsworth quadrangle. 991 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,075 feet above sea level.
On record in Wadsworth
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 1 record
Wadsworth Union Churchlisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresWadsworth grew from 834 to 991 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 834 | |
| 2020 | 991 | +157 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 24 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.
- 1890 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Reno quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
Photographs
3 photographs, 2022Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
115 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Wadsworth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 713 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 3 were 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 | 41 |
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Carson City District Office | TMFD 3 |
| 16 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Carson City District Office | WNA 9 |
| 12 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Carson City District Office | WEST TRUCKEE RIVER RANCH |
| 10 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Carson City District Office | WNA 17 |
| 1 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Carson City District Office | FREEMAN |
| 1 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Carson City District Office | BIA #15 |
| 9 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carson City District Office | FLYING J |
| 8 August 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Carson City District Office | WADSWORTH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Wadsworth: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Tungsten, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cr Minerals Mill | Diatomite | Producer | ||
| Nevada Cement Co. Plant | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Gold-Silver Prospect | Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Wadsworth | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Derby Thungsten Mine | Tungsten | Past Producer | 1940 | |
| Sundown Claim | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Sundown Claim | Uranium | Prospect | ||
| Wadsworth | Tungsten | Producer | Scheelite | |
| Butcher Boy Mine | Gold | Past Producer | 1860, 1898 | |
| Rainbow Canyon Mines | Gold | Occurrence | Gold |
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wadsworth in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2014: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wadsworth | - | Wind gusts between 60 and 65 mph were recorded at the Cherry Valley RAWS. The time of the wind gusts were estimated based on radar. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Wadsworth | - | Interstate 80 was closed between exits 43 and 46 between about 1600PST and 1730PST due to very heavy rain on the freeway causing a large amount of ponding water. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dodge | 2.9 miles | 24 | |
| Roderick (historical) | 5.6 miles | 23 | |
| Olinghouse | 7.8 miles | 23 | |
| Thisby | 7.9 miles | 23 | |
| Clarks (historical) | 10.2 miles | 23 | |
| Nixon | 14.2 miles | 22 | |
| Patrick | 16.7 miles | 24 | |
| Mustang | 19.8 miles | 28 |
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 Wadsworth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1847257 | 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 844607. 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.








