White Pine 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
	American Legion Hall	building	1994	94001404
	Baker Ranger Station	building	1995	95001224
	Capital Theater	building	1993	93000692
	Central Theater	building	1993	93000691
	East Ely Depot	building	1984	84002082
	Ely City Hall and Fire Station	building	2018	100002071
	Ely L. D. S. Stake Tabernacle	building	1993	93000685
	Fort Ruby	building	1966	66000460
	Fort Schellbourne	site	1972	72000768
	Fort Schellbourne (Boundary Increase)	site	1977	77001544
	Johnson Lake Mine Historic District	district	1995	95001225
	Lehman Orchard and Aqueduct	district	1975	75000181
	Lund Grade School	building	2018	100003200
	McGill Drug Store	building	1998	97001301
	NNRy Locomotive #40	structure	1993	93000693
	Nevada Northern Railway-McGill Depot	building	2015	15000010
	Osceola (East) Ditch	structure	1996	96000584
	Rhodes Cabin	building	1975	75000180
	US Post Office, Ely, Nevada	building	2005	05001122
	Ward Charcoal Ovens	structure	1971	71000491
	White Pine County Courthouse	building	1986	86001958

Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 2 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 17,784 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: 2,007 of them, burning about 218,044 acres. 1,708 started naturally and 17 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 96 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 1 injury and about $44,100 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 833 workings inside this county. 67 still produce and 766 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.