Churchill County Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“Williams St. in Fallon, Nevada, United States, is a historic jail built in 1906. It is "a simple utilitarian public building with Greek Revival influences that was designed by Reno architect Ben Leon.”
Wikipedia article Churchill County Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Churchill County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10 W Williams Ave., Fallon, 89406
When was it listed? April 2002
Category. building
Census division. Fallon
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 01001546 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Churchill County Jail between 1992 and 2011, burning about 162 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	150 acres	Carson City District Office	WADE
28 April 2011	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge	GRASTEIT

Every fire recorded in Churchill County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Churchill County Jail: 9 past producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fallon Plant Standard Slag Co.	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
John Young Mill	Tungsten	Past Producer	1976
Amelia Mill No. 1	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1989
Fallon Test Facility	Gold, Silver	Plant	1981
Sunlite No. 1	Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Wheeler Mill	Gold	Past Producer	1979
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Navy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Twenty Mile Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Churchill County

Storms near this property

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fallon, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 heavy rain. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2010	Flood	Fallon	$25,000	Two separate heavy rain events, one on the 4th and one on the 7th, caused ponding of water to more than one foot deep at the Ideal Mobile Home Park. Other areas of Fallon had periodic standing water and minor flooding, some due to poor drainage.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	$10,000	Thunderstorm outflow winds estimated at 75 mph caused scattered damage across Fallon including 5 downed power poles, a large tree blown into a fuel storage tank and a destroyed home gazebo.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds caused a 4 to 5 foot diameter tree to fall on St. Clair Street in Fallon.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	$2,000	A trained weather spotter reported wind gusts to 43 knots (50 mph) near Fallon Station. The strong wind produced blowing dust which reduced visibility to around 3 miles. A tree was blown over onto a power line which resulted in a loss of power for a few minutes.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	$1,000	A trained weather spotter reported numerous trees blown down by strong thunderstorm wind gusts six miles northwest of Fallon.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	$500	A trained weather spotter reported that a 20-ft tall 2-ft diameter tree was blown down onto a fence. Numerous small branches from other trees were also broken by the strong wind gusts.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	$500	Estimated peak wind gusts to 60 knots from thunderstorm outflow. Power lines, trees and a shed blown over.
April 2018	Heavy Rain	Fallon	-	ASOS NFL, Fallon Naval Air Station (elevation 3934 feet) reported 0.59 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 6 April 0956PST to 7 April 0956PST.
May 2018	Heavy Rain	Fallon	-	ASOS station NFL, Fallon Naval Air Station (elevation 3934 feet) reported 0.52 inches of rainfall from 16 May 1341PST to 1856PST.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	-	A line of thunderstorms approximately 15 to 30 miles west of Fallon produced outflow winds as high as 49 mph gusting to 60 mph at the Naval Air Station in Fallon. Visibility was reduced to between 1 and 2 miles as the wind kicked up large amounts of dust.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	-	Wind gusts of 61 to 63 mph were recorded at the Naval Air Station in Fallon. The highest wind gust was recorded at at 1505PST.
April 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	-	The Naval Air Station in Fallon reported this wind gust. Sustained winds were 41 mph at 1452PST.
June 2009	Hail	Fallon	-	A trained weather spotter located 3 miles southeast of Fallon reported hail of 1-inch diameter.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	-	The wind sensor at NAS Fallon recorded a wind gust of 52 knots (60 mph).
July 2008	Hail	Fallon	-	A trained weather spotter in Fallon reported one-inch-diameter hail.
July 2008	Hail	Fallon	-	A National Weather Service employee reported three-quarter-inch-diameter hail in Fallon.
July 2008	Funnel Cloud	Fallon	-	A trained weather spotter reported a funnel cloud just west of Fallon.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	-	A trained weather spotter located 1 mile southwest of Fallon estimated wind gusts of 52 knots (60 mph). Power outages were reported along with areas of blowing dust.
July 2008	Funnel Cloud	Fallon	-	A trained weather spotter reported a funnel cloud west of Fallon.
July 2008	Hail	Fallon	-	A trained weather spotter located 1 mile southwest of Fallon reported one-and-a-quarter-inch-diameter hail.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	-	A trained weather spotter located 4 miles SSW of Fallon reported a thunderstorm wind gust to 52 knots (60 mph). The wind gust produced an area of blowing dust which reduced visibility to less than 1 mile.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	-	A trained weather spotter located 4 miles SSW of Fallon reported a thunderstorm wind gust of 61 knots (70 mph).
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	-	A large tree was blown down onto Stillwater Road. Blowing dust also reduced visibility to near zero.
September 2000	Hail	Fallon	-	Sheriff's office in Fallon reported marble size hail and heavy rain that lasted 10-15 minutes.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Fallon	-	A severe thunderstorm near Fallon produced a wind gust to 50 kts. A 50 foot cottonwood tree was reported blown down.
May 1994	Tornado (F0)	Fallon	-	A small tornado was reported 20 miles east of Fallon moving north towards Dixie Valley. It lasted about six minutes.

Every storm recorded in Churchill County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Maine Street Historic District	under 500 feet	2019
Fallon City Hall	under 500 feet	2004
Robert L. Douglass House	under 500 feet	2001
Federal Building and Post Office	under 500 feet	2006
Churchill County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1992
Cottage Schools, The	0.3 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001546 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Churchill County	All 16 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.