1938 Lincoln County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The 1938 Lincoln County Courthouse is an Art Moderne style building in Pioche, Nevada. The 1938 courthouse replaced the so-called "million-dollar courthouse" built in 1871, whose last payment on the approximately $800,000 it cost was coincidentally made in 1938.”
Wikipedia article 1938 Lincoln County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Lincoln 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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 1 Main St., Pioche, 89043
When was it listed? July 2002
Category. building
Census division. Pioche
National Register reference number. 02000820 - 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of 1938 Lincoln County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,589 acres in total. 94 started naturally. 7 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle 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
4 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	CASELTON
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	RED CONE
3 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	PANAM
3 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	NATURAL OUT 13
19 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	ROACH
16 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	EDDIE B
15 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	HAMLIGHT
13 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	FOUR MILE

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 126 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 126 workings within 5 miles of 1938 Lincoln County Courthouse: 80 past producers, 20 occurrences, 20 prospects, 3 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Silver, Lead, Zinc. 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
Abe Lincoln Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Manganese, Iron	Past Producer	1867, 1885
Agricultural Minerals Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant	1975
Alps Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Antimony	Past Producer	1870, 1871
Arcane Mining Co. Property	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Black Prince Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Manganese, Zinc	Past Producer	Wad
Black Prince Mine	Zinc, Silver, Manganese, Lead, Gold	Past Producer	1952
Blue Queen Claims	Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead	Prospect
Bumagin Shaft	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Prospect
California-Pioche Shaft	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite, Manganese, Antimony	Past Producer	Barite, Chalcopyrite, Galena
California-Pioche Shaft	Gold, Silver, Manganese, Lead	Prospect

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pioche, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 11 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2018	Flash Flood	Pioche	$150,000	There was flash flooding in the Pioche and Panaca areas, including an eight mile stretch of Highway 322 east of Pioche. Highway 93 was starting to wash out near mile marker 113. At Cathedral Gorge State Park, a guardrail was taken out by flood water, and the campground was inundated with four feet of water.
October 2018	Flash Flood	Pioche	$50,000	Flash flooding on Main Street in Pioche left water and debris in the street and water in several buildings.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Pioche	$25,000	Water entered the basement of a home in Pioche, damaging two bedrooms. Rocks and debris accumulated on several streets. 2.73 inches of rain fell in two hours.
July 2012	Flash Flood	Pioche	$25,000	Water came up over the sidewalks and into some businesses along Main Street in Pioche.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Pioche	$15,000	Thunderstorm winds blew a power pole down onto a house.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Pioche	$10,000	Flooding damaged a road and inundated a hay field.
September 2014	Flash Flood	Pioche	$10,000	Mud and debris covered Highway 322 just east of Pioche, and there was erosion damage to several agricultural fields in the area.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Pioche	$2,000	Main Street in Pioche was flooded with water, rocks, and debris.
August 2015	Flash Flood	Pioche	$2,000	Water and debris flowed over Highway 322 between mile markers 4 and 9.
September 2021	Flash Flood	Pioche	$1,000	Six inches of water flowed over Main Street in Pioche.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Pioche	$1,000	Water and debris covered the intersection of Highway 322 and Alexander Ave.
July 2005	Hail	Pioche	-	Dime size hail.
November 2005	Hail	Pioche	-	Fell for 5-10 minutes.
September 1998	Tornado (F0)	Pioche	-	The Lincoln County Sheriff reported a brief touchdown of a weak tornado in an open field between Pioche and Echo Canyon State Park. The tornado disturbed some irrigation pipes, but no significant damage was reported.
July 2012	Hail	Pioche	-	no account filed
September 2011	Hail	Pioche	-	no account filed
August 1998	Flash Flood	Pioche	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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

4 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
Lincoln County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1978
Pioche Firehouse	0.5 miles	2018
Brown's Hall-Thompson's Opera House	0.5 miles	1984
Gem Theater	0.5 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02000820 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 8 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.