Virginia City, Nevada

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Storey County

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 10 records

• Fourth Ward SchoolNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
• King-McBride Mansionlisted 1998
• Marlette Lake Water Systemlisted 1992
• McCarthy Houselisted 1995
• Parish Houselisted 1993
• Piper's Opera Houselisted 1997
• Henry Piper Houselisted 2011
• Piper-Beebe Houselisted 1993
• C. J. Prescott Houselisted 1993
• Chollar Mansionlisted 1993

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 44 shown

• "Evening Chronicle" Building, C Street, Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Blaubelt Mansion, Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Brick Vaults, Office of Consolidated Virginia Mining Company, Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• C Street Area Survey (Commercial Buildings), Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 21 photographs
• Cemetery, Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Comstock House, C Street, Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Crystal Saloon, Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Episcopal Church, D Street, Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Fire House, Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fire Station, Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• First Street (Commercial Buildings), Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fourth Ward School, South C Street at Highway 17, Virginia Cityfederal building survey, 9 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Storey County

Virginia City fell from 855 to 787 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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 67 fires within 5 miles of Virginia City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7,490 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 2 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:

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

Every fire recorded in Storey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 189 workings within 5 miles of Virginia City: 118 past producers, 46 prospects, 10 unknowns, 6 occurrences. 9 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 Virginia City in 12 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 3 heavy rain, 2 flood, 2 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 856420. 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.