Gold Hill, Nevada

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Fourth Ward SchoolNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.9 miles away
• C. J. Prescott Houselisted 1993 · 0.9 miles away
• Chollar Mansionlisted 1993 · 0.9 miles away

Surveyed buildings and structures 11 records

• American Flat Mill, Assay Office, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• American Flat Mill, Coarse Crushing Plant, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• American Flat Mill, Cyanide Plant, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• American Flat Mill, Fine Grinding and Concentration Plant, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• American Flat Mill, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• American Flat Mill, Ore Bin, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• American Flat Mill, Precipitation and Refining Building, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• American Flat Mill, Substation, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• American Flat Mill, Warehouse, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Liberty Fire House, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Miner's Union Hall, B Street, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 4 photographs

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1891 USGS Carson quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Carson quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1893 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:125000
• 1950 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1952 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1959 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:62500
• 1967 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1974 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:24000
• 1979 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Virginia City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Gold Hill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,527 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Formanville (historical)
• Lower Gold Hill (historical)
• American City (historical)
• American Flat (historical)
• Comstock (historical)
• Divide

Every fire recorded in Storey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 203 workings within 5 miles of Gold Hill: 124 past producers, 48 prospects, 10 unknowns, 9 producers. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Storey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gold Hill in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Storey County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 858000. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.