Maps

Our Geographic Information System (GIS) department has developed a number of maps which we have made available as below. The data within these maps are specific to Esmeralda County and show the various geographic details as well as where the proposed rail and highway corridors intersect Esmeralda County. These corridors have been designated as the preferred routes for construction and operation of a rail system for transporting shipments of spent nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, and materials to Yucca Mountain, Nevada. You can find more information regarding the details of this rail line on our transportation page.

The Department of Energy (DOE) has analyzed the potential impacts of railroad construction and operation along common segments and alternative segments within the Caliente and Mina rail corridors. The Rail Alignment EIS (DOE/EIS-0369) The Caliente corridor, the preferred route, intersects Esmeralda on the eastern border near highway 95 and are shown on all the maps in yellow. If you would like to order a map, please click here and state within the email, which map(s) you are interested in and the details of your request.

Note: The following maps are viewable in jpg format and printable in PDF or portable document format.

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Aquifer Type

Developed by the U.S. Geological Survey, these data show the Esmeralda County portion of the shallowest principal aquifers of the conterminous United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The original maps were maps published at a scale of 1:2,500,000 and were printed in the 2003 series "Ground Water Atlas of the United States".

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Hydrographic Basins

Map Data Source and Description
Developed by the Nevada Division of Water
Resources, these hydrographic basin boundaries
are reviewed by and filed with the Nevada State
Engineer. These boundaries assist staff of the
Nevada Division of Water Resources and the
public with identifying in which hydrographic basin
an application to appropriate groundwater is located.

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Earthquake Fault Line

Map Data Source and Description These faults are a component of the composite Digital Geologic Map of Nevada created by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG). The original county reports with 1:250,000 scale geologic maps were published by the NBMG as a series of Bulletins from 1961 to 1987. The data in this 2006 Fault Line shape file has not been edited from the original data in NBMG OFR 97-1

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Federal Lands

Map Data Source and Description This map layer was produced in 2005 by the USGS for the National Atlas of the United States, and consists of federally owned or administered lands of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Only areas of 640 acres or more are included. There may be private in holdings within the boundaries of Federal lands in this map layer.

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Geologic Area

Map Data Source and Description
This 2007 USGS layer was compiled and modified from digitized versions of 1:250,000-scale Nevada county geologic bulletins published by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) between 1961 and 1987. This new regional geologic interpretation of geologic units and related short descriptions utilizes linear features of faults and contacts with new geologic and tectonic ideas.

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Herd Management Area

Map Data Source and Description
Created in 2001 by the BLM, these data represent the Esmeralda County portion of the Wild Horse and Burro Herd Management Areas (HMA's) in the State of Nevada. This map is intended to be used for reference regarding the names, locations, and sizes of the Wild Horse and Burro Herd Management Areas.

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BLM Land Disposal

Map Data Source and Description This data represents the lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Nevada that have been identified as suitable to be considered for disposal. This represents the location of public lands identified for exchange or disposal (as of 2005) and is intended to be< used for reference only, and not for determination of land ownership.

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Historic Mines and Prospects

Map Data Source and Description
Produced by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) in 2005, the Nevada Abandoned Mines Database Compilation< Update compiled and updated existing digital data sets containing information and location data on mine and prospect sites throughout the State of Nevada.

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National Wetlands Inventory

Map Data Source and Description The National Wetlands Inventory is a national data set created by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on USGS 1:24,000 topographic maps depicting extent, approximate location and type of wetlands and deepwater habitats in the conterminous United States.

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Precipitation Map

Map Data Source and Description
This layer represents average monthly and annual precipitation for the climatological period 1961-90. Average precipitation is estimated from an analytical model that uses point data and a digital elevation model (DEM) to generate grided estimates of annual, monthly and event-based climatic parameters. Developed in 1998 by the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University, the Esmeralda County< portion was extracted from a national map.

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Soils Map

Map Data Source and Description
Developed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in 1994, this map depicts information about soil features on or near the surface of the Earth. Map units were generalized from more detailed soil survey maps where available. Land Remote Sensing Satellite (LANDSAT) imagery and other data were used to estimate soil units where detailed soil surveys were not available.

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Land Stewardship Map

Map Data Source and Description
This 2005 stewardship map was developed
by New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife
Research Unit as a component of the USGS
National Gap Analysis for the purpose of land
management. Intended for use at a scale of
1:100,000 or greater, the stewardship map
identifies ownership for conservation purposes.

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Geothermal Resources Map

Map Data Source and Description Created by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy in September, 2007, these data identify public lands sections leased (or pending lease) for geothermal exploration and development on federal lands.

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Wilderness Study Map

Wilderness Study area

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