Wilkins, Nevada

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wells census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89835. The Survey maps it on the Wilkins quadrangle.

Wilkins within Elko County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Wells quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Wilkins quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Wells quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wilkins between 1995 and 2019, burning about 88 acres in total. 6 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
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
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
6 September 2006	Natural	8.0 acres	Elko District Office	DVISION
23 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Elko District Office	RAILROAD
16 September 1995	Natural	50 acres	Elko District Office	HUNTER II
30 August 1998	Natural	1.5 acres	Elko District Office	WINE
22 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	DUFF
21 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Elko District Office	HWY 93
14 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Elko District Office	HIGH HOPE
10 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Elko District Office	104

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wilkins: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite. 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
	Eggfruit	Barium-Barite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilkins in 1 storm report in 2005: 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
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wilkins	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elko 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
Shores	8.3 miles	9
Schoer Place	10.1 miles	11
Melandco	10.8 miles	10
Fenelon	16.1 miles	9
Pequop	16.7 miles	10
Holborn	17.5 miles	9
Henry	19.2 miles	9
Afton (historical)	19.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 845744. 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.