LDS Moapa Stake Office Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“LDS Moapa Stake Office Building, also known as the Virmoa Maternity Hospital, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Overton, Nevada. It was built between 1917 and 1919 to serve the community of Moapa Valley as a local office, classroom and records repository for the LDS Church.”
Wikipedia article LDS Moapa Stake Office Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Clark 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. 161 W. Virginia St., Overton, 89040
When was it listed? July 2002
Category. building
Census division. Clark
National Register reference number. 02000819 - 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

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of LDS Moapa Stake Office Building between 1995 and 2020, burning about 322 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Fireworks	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
3 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	MESA
13 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	BAKER
24 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	MORMON MESA
2 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	GLASSLAND
16 August 2020	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	LOGAN
16 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	CCFD 6
12 August 2004	Natural	50 acres	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	OVERTON
11 August 1996	Natural	127 acres	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	DRIPPING S

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of LDS Moapa Stake Office Building: 16 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite, Uranium. 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
Broken Ridge Property	Uranium	Prospect
Golden Glow & Carnotite Lode	Uranium	Past Producer
Unnamed Spring	Geothermal	Producer
W. Whipple Well	Geothermal	Producer
Kaolin Wash	Magnesite	Past Producer
Overton	Magnesite	Past Producer	1915
Overton Mine	Magnesite	Past Producer	1915
Hyer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Overton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Overton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Overton, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
September 1998	Flash Flood	Overton	$100,000	no account filed
September 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Overton	$1,000	Strong winds from a thunderstorm caused minor damage and peeled shingles from the roof of a Park Service facility at Overton Beach on Lake Mead.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Overton	-	62 mph thunderstorm wind gust at Echo Bay.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Overton	-	The National Park Service at Echo Bay reported an estimated sustained winds of 40 mph with a gust of 70 mph.
July 1999	Flash Flood	Overton	-	Heavy rain filled the California Wash which flooded State Route 169 between Interstate 15 and the Valley of Fire State Park. Park rangers reported that the road remained closed for almost two hours.
September 1998	Flash Flood	Overton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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

3 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
Overton Gymnasium	0.2 miles	1992
Boulder Dam Park Museum	0.6 miles	1996
St. Thomas Memorial Cemetery	1.4 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000819 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark County	All 48 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.