Hawthorne USO Building

Built in 1941. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Hawthorne USO Building, at 950 E St. in Hawthorne, Nevada, was built in 1941 as a World War II United Services Organization (USO) social hall. It is a simple 90-by-160-foot "modified I plan" standard "USO Type D Federal Recreation Building", on Hawthorne's main street.”
Wikipedia article Hawthorne USO Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Mineral County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1941.

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. 950 E St., Hawthorne, 89415
When was it listed? February 2005
Category. building
Census division. Hawthorne
When was it built? 1941
National Register reference number. 02000703 - 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hawthorne USO Building between 2000 and 2018, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Natural	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
22 June 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Carson City District Office	GRANT
18 June 2018	Firearms and explosives use	2.0 acres	Carson City District Office	FREEDOM

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hawthorne USO Building: 7 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Silver. 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
Gregory Andalusite	Kyanite, Lead	Unknown
Aurora Mine	Gold, Silver	Plant	1860, 1986
Corey Mine	Silver	Past Producer
Corey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hawthorne Silica	Silica	Past Producer
Lucky Boy Pass	Silica	Past Producer
Rodeo Grounds Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pinnocle Mine and Mill	Gold	Past Producer
Twilight Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mineral County

Storms near this property

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hawthorne, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hawthorne	$10,000	Thunderstorm outflow winds were estimated at 75 mph in Hawthorne, NV. Fence and roof damage occurred at several locations in town due to the wind gusts. At least one home storage building was also destroyed.
June 2024	Flood	Hawthorne	-	Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) located 14.0 mi S of Hawthorne, NV reported road closed due to flooding on SR-359 both directions near Pole Line Rd.
June 2023	Heavy Rain	Hawthorne	-	At trained spotter located 1.0 mi NNE of Hawthorne, NV, and an AWOS station (KHTH-Hawthorne Industrial Airport) located 1.0 mi NNW of Hawthorne, NV, reported total rainfall amounts of 0.96 inches and 0.74 inches respectively.
September 2023	Hail	Hawthorne	-	A trained spotter located 1.0 mi NE of Hawthorne, NV, reported a severe thunderstorm dropped several dime to half-inch size hailstones along with a few one-inch size hailstones.
September 2023	Debris Flow	Hawthorne	-	Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) reported a second flash flooding event 8.0 mi S of Hawthorne, NV when strong thunderstorms producing heavy rainfall caused debris flows and flooding across Nevada State Route 359. A partial collapse occurred on the southbound lane of Nevada State Route 359 that closed the road at 4:11 PM PST, Sunday, September 3, 2023.
September 2023	Flash Flood	Hawthorne	-	A relayed flash flood report from Mineral County Search and Rescue. A mixture of rocks, water, mud and debris of unknown depth closed NV-359 at milepost 9. Event time based on a separate NDOT report of water on the road near the same location, or 22.0 mi S of Hawthorne, NV.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Hawthorne	-	NV-359 closed in Mineral County near mile post 25 due to flooding. Reported by NDOT.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Hawthorne	-	Measured from NDOT Hwy 95 station.
June 2015	Hail	Hawthorne	-	The Nevada Division of Emergency Management reported golf-ball sized hail.
June 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Hawthorne	-	The storm survey was supplemented by a public video of the tornado moving along 5th street in Hawthorne. The tornado was determined to be EF-1 for 0.3 miles on the east side of Hawthorne (near 5th street) and EF-0 elsewhere. Approximately 10 to 15 homes and businesses were severely damaged along with power lines and road signs. One 2 foot diameter tree was blown over onto a mobile home and 2 vehicles were severely damaged. This tornado was associated with a non-supercell thunderstorm.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Hawthorne	-	A spotter reported that highway 359 south of Hawthorne and Lucky Boy Pass Road were closed due to flash flooding/debris flows. At least one vehicle was stranded in mud. A video was shared on Facebook showing fast-flowing water over highway 359.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hawthorne	-	A trained weather spotter located one mile SSE of Hawthorne estimated a wind gust of 54 knots (62 mph).
August 2004	Heavy Rain	Hawthorne	-	A total of 0.82 inches of rain fell in 40 minutes.
July 2002	Hail	Hawthorne	-	1 inch hail
September 1997	Flash Flood	Hawthorne	-	A flash flood triggered a mudslide six miles south of Hawthorne and caused temporary closure of Highway 359. The mudslide was a quarter of a mile long and three to six inches deep. Significant damage was not reported.
June 2015	Hail	Hawthorne	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mineral 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mineral County Courthouse	0.5 miles	1982
	Sixth Street School	0.5 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000703 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mineral County	All 4 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.