Churchill County, Nevada

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Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph	Property	Type	Listed	Reference
	Carson River Diversion Dam	structure	1981	81000380
	Churchill County Courthouse	building	1992	92001258
	Churchill County Jail	building	2002	01001546
	Cold Springs Station Site	site	1972	72000762
	Cottage Schools, The	building	2008	08000509
	Robert L. Douglass House	building	2001	01000822
	Douglass-Frey Ranch	district	2015	15000796
	Fallon City Hall	building	2004	04001197
	Federal Building and Post Office	building	2006	06000109
	Harmon School	building	1989	89000055
	Hazen Store	building	2002	01001547
	Holy Trinity Episcopal Church	building	2003	03000413
	Humboldt Cave	site	1976	76001140
	Lahontan Dam and Power Station	structure	1981	81000381
	Maine Street Historic District	district	2019	100004098
	Oats Park Grammar School	building	1990	90000715

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 9,513 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 48 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 214 of them, burning about 306,896 acres. 125 started naturally and 4 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 75 reports for this county, causing no deaths, no injuries and about $46,500 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 786 workings inside this county. 47 still produce and 739 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.