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Zephyr Cove, Nevada

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Zephyr Cove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89448. It stands on McFaul Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glenbrook quadrangle.

Zephyr Cove within Douglas County

On record in Zephyr Cove

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 30 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.

Fires near this place

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Zephyr Cove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 26 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/undetermined68
Recreation and ceremony51
Natural37
Arson/incendiarism26
Smoking22
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks3
Other causes2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitHOLLY
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitKAHLE
8 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management Unitnot named
7 September 2007Other causesunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitSADDLE
7 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitLIBRARY
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitKAHLE 1
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionFERN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Zephyr Cove: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Copper, Quartz. 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
Granite GroupUranium, CopperOccurrenceChrysocolla
Kingbury Queen ProspectQuartz, UraniumProspect
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Granite Group Nos 1-5UraniumProspect
Kingsbury QueenUraniumOccurrenceAcmite, Torbernite

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zephyr Cove in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2022Heavy RainZephyr Cove-Mesonet stations SKYN2-Skyland (2.0 mi NNE of Zephyr Cove, NV) and FW9917 (in Glenbrook, NV) reported heavy rainfall amounts of 0.54 and 0.63 inches respectively.
September 2017Tornado (EF0)Zephyr Cove-A citizen reported a confirmed tornado/waterspout that formed two brief spin-ups on Lake Tahoe near Cave Rock, Nevada. The position of the tornado was estimated based on pictures and terrain features. The tornado was determined to be an EF-0 as no damage was reported. This tornado was non-supercellular in nature.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Elk Point1.1 miles34
Round Hill1.1 miles34
Skyland1.5 miles30
Hobart (historical)1.6 miles34
Lakeridge2.4 miles30
Tahoe Village2.4 miles34
Lincoln Park2.6 miles30
Kingsbury Meadows2.8 miles34

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 862128. 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.