Elko 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
	El Rancho Hotel and Casino	building	2024	100009943
	Elko County Courthouse	building	1992	92001259
	Gold Creek Ranger Station	building	1992	92001187
	Lamoille Organization Camp	district	2007	07000553
	Midas Schoolhouse	building	2004	04000727
	Ruby Valley Pony Express Station	building	1975	75001110
	US Post Office-Elko Main	building	1990	90000133

Drawn when these were printed as single large sheets: the town seen from the air, and the county divided into its farms with every owner named. Each opens the original at the Library of Congress.

Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 8 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.

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 33,060 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: 3,034 of them, burning about 3,909,132 acres. 2,029 started naturally and 33 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 342 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 4 injuries and about $14,491,050 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 1,659 workings inside this county. 87 still produce and 1,572 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.