White, Nevada

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.

• 1926 USGS Roberts Mountains quadrangle1:250000
• 1929 USGS Roberts Mountains quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1949 USGS Garden Valley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1951 USGS Garden Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Millett quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1959 USGS Millett quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Simpson Park Mtns quadrangle1:100000
• 1979 USGS Simpson Park Mts quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Frazier Creek quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of White (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,192 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Romano (historical)
• Birch (historical)
• Blackburn
• Mineral

Every fire recorded in Eureka County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of White (historical): 4 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Eureka County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 857870. 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.