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Weepah, Nevada

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Silver Peak census division. The Survey maps it on the Weepah quadrangle.

Weepah within Esmeralda County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Weepah: 17 past producers, 13 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
Alpha ClaimsSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrence
American Barite MineBarium-Barite, Iron, LeadPast Producer
Curley NickelNickelPast Producer
Electric, Levy and Fissure Patent ClaimCopper, TungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Enterprise ProspectSilver, Gold, Copper, LeadOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite
Gold EagleLead, Silver, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1890, 1900
Gold Eagle MineLead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Antimony, ArsenicPast Producer1960, 1967
GossanLead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
GossanCopper, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast ProducerReplacement
Spring BasinSilver, Zinc, GoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Esmeralda 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
Barrel Spring (historical)2.6 miles23
Camp Harding (historical)4.2 miles16
Alum (historical)5.9 miles23
Alpine (historical)6.7 miles14
McLeans9.5 miles14
Blair10.6 miles23
Stimler (historical)11.9 miles23
Blair Junction (historical)12.6 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122595706The 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 856169. 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.

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.