Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“The Gardnerville Branch Jail is a historic jail located at 1440 Courthouse St. in Gardnerville, Nevada. The jail was built in 1910 and served as Douglas County's only jail from 1910 to 1915.”
Wikipedia article Gardnerville Branch Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.03000415- 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 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Gardnerville Branch Jail
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 118 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
7
Natural
7
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Debris and open burning
4
Firearms and explosives use
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Arson/incendiarism
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Gardnerville Branch Jail: 4 past producers, 4 producers.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Gardnerville, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 heavy rain, 6 flash flood, 3 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A 12-year-old girl was struck by lightning in Gardnerville during the afternoon of the 12th. The condition of the girl was not known at the time of the report.
The Minden-Gardnerville Record Courier noted that a Douglas County fire marshal stated that 9 houses had interior damage due to flooding. Also, emergency officials indicated that 2 feet of water had flowed over Fish Springs Rd. A power pole was broken near Jacobsen Ln due to the flash flood.
Lightning struck the roof of a house in Gardnerville, starting a fire in the attic. Lightning also caused power outages in Gardnerville and Minden. Up to 2,100 people were temporarily without power as a result.
A COCORAHS (NV-DG-11 Gardnerville) located 3.9 mi S of Gardnerville, NV, and a CO-OP Observer (MINN2) located in Minden, NV, reported 24-hour rainfall totals of 1.78 and 1.52 inches respectively.
Spotter reported 4-6 inches of water running where Fish Springs and Jacobsen Lane meet. Nearby Pine Nut Creek full due to runoff on the Numbers Fire burn scar.
CoCoRaHS station NV-DG-4 in 5 miles west of Gardnerville reported 0.75 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 27 March 0600PST to 28 March 0600PST.
Trained weather spotter 3 miles west-southwest of Gardnerville Ranchos reported 0.87 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 24 December 0807PST to 25 December 0807PST.
Mesonet station PNTN2, 9 miles east of Gardnerville (elevation 5882 feet) reported 0.63 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 24 May 0858PST to 25 May 0858PST.
Facebook videos from a National Weather Service employee and KOLO News showed fast flowing water in Pine Nut Creek and over low water crossings on Cali Pequeno and Out-R-Way Roads.
Flood waters from Pine Nut Creek moved over East Valley Rd (and several non-paved roads) per photographic evidence. The Allerman Canal (eastern side of Gardnerville) helped to stop the advance of flood waters. The time of the flash flood is estimated.
Lightning struck a poplar tree at a home in Gardnerville. The lightning bolt blew out the front door jamb of the house. An automobile's windshield was badly cracked. Computers, televisions, and VCRs throughout the neighborhood were damaged from the strike. In a house a few doors away, kitchen lights were blown from their sockets.
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.
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.
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