BLM unit
Pistone-Black Mountain National Conservation Area
Pistone-Black Mountain National Conservation Area is a BLM unit in Mineral County, Nevada.
Pistone-Black Mountain National Conservation Area map
Pistone-Black Mountain National Conservation Area boundary from USGS PAD-US or the managing agency, simplified for display. Not for navigation or legal boundaries.
Fire restrictions
3 fire restriction orders are recorded for this unit as of Sept. 30, 2026. Each links the signed order.
- BLM Nevada Carson City District - Stage 2 Fire Restrictions Rescinded Applies to BLM Carson City District land, which includes this unit (Stillwater Field Office). Stage 2 rescinded. Listed under Western Nevada (Sierra Front Zone) on Nevada Fire Info. The signed notice states what was lifted and what stays in effect.
- Bureau of Land Management Carson City District fire restrictions order Applies to BLM Carson City District land, which includes this unit (Stillwater Field Office). Listed under Western Nevada (Sierra Front Zone) on Nevada Fire Info. The signed order states the exact area, what it prohibits, and exemptions.
- BLM Nevada Prevention Order: BLM statewide restrictions Effective May 1, 2026. Applies to all BLM and Forest Service land in Nevada. Prohibited: Possessing, discharging, using or allowing the use of fireworks, pyrotechnic or incendiary devices; possessing, discharging, igniting or causing to burn; explosives or explosive material, including binary explosive targets; discharging a firearm using tracer, incendiary, or steel-component ammunition. [Use of tracer or incendiary ammunition is always prohibited on public lands]; operating or using any internal or external combustion engine without a spark arresting device properly installed, maintained and in effective working order.
Nevada Fire Info, BLM Nevada's interagency fire site, keeps the Nevada fire restrictions map and signed orders for every fire zone, and a Nevada fire map of active fires.
Camping at Pistone-Black Mountain National Conservation Area
No camping rule on record yet.
Getting there
- Nearest town: Schurz
- https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section460iiii&num=0&edition=prelim (accessed 2026-09-28)
- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ263/html/PLAW-117publ263.htm (accessed 2026-09-28)
- https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/docs/2024-06/BLM%20National%20Monuments%20and%20National%20Conservation%20Areas%206.24.pdf (accessed 2026-09-28)
- https://www.blm.gov/office/stillwater-field-office (accessed 2026-09-28)
- https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2025_Gazetteer/2025_gaz_place_32.txt (accessed 2026-09-28)