Lander 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
	Austin Cemetery	site	2003	03000753
	Austin City Hall	building	2003	03000754
	Austin Historic District	district	1971	71000489
	Austin Masonic and Odd Fellows Hall	building	2003	03000756
	Austin Methodist Church	building	2003	03000751
	Gridley Store	building	2003	03000752
	Lander County Courthouse	building	2003	03000750
	Lander County High School	building	2000	00000821
	Nevada Central Turntable	site	2003	03000759
	St. Augustine's Catholic Church	building	2003	03000758
	St. George's Episcopal Church	building	2003	03000755
	Stokes Castle	site	2003	03000757

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 15,038 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: 755 of them, burning about 1,110,705 acres. 467 started naturally and 13 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 79 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 1 injury and about $5,987,500 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 1,138 workings inside this county. 82 still produce and 1,056 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.