Gridley Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Gridley Store, at 247 Water St. in the "Upper Austin" area of Austin, Nevada, is a historic building built in 1863 but with significance dating to 1864, during the American Civil War. It is associated with Reuel Colt Gridley, who reportedly lost a bet and had to carry a 50-pound (23 kg) sack of flour throughout the town.”
Wikipedia article Gridley Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Lander County · listed in 2003 · 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. 247 Water St., Austin, 89310
When was it listed? August 2003
Category. building
Census division. Austin
National Register reference number. 03000752 - 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

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Gridley Store between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,064 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 3 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	15
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	AUSTIN
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	REEDS WILLOW
21 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	AUSTIN
20 September 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	RODEO
10 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	BOB SCOTT (309)
1 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	BADE
4 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	SUBSTATION
30 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	ROADSIDE

Every fire recorded in Lander County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 191 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 191 workings within 5 miles of Gridley Store: 159 past producers, 13 unknowns, 11 prospects, 6 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Uranium, Silver, Gold. 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
Amador Mine	Antimony, Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Austin Custom Mill	Antimony, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Bc and Ar Claims	Gold, Uranium, Zinc	Prospect
Belle Wilder Incline	Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Cambrian and New York Mine	Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold	Past Producer	1869
Castle Mountain Mine	Lead, Manganese, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper	Unknown
Eclipse Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Eclipse Tunnel	Silver, Copper, Gold	Unknown
Frost Shaft	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Hardy Mine	Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lander County

Storms near this property

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Austin, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2015	Flash Flood	Austin	$1,000	Reports and pictures from social media showed flash flooding in and around Austin. Time estimated based off radar. Damages are estimated.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Austin	-	Reported by the Desatoya RAWS station.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Austin	-	Lander county sheriff reported water running over state highway 305 between Austin and Battle Mountain.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Austin	-	Red Butte Raws reported a wind gust to 60 mph.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Austin	-	no account filed
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Austin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lander 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
St. George's Episcopal Church	0.4 miles	2003
Austin Methodist Church	0.4 miles	2003
Lander County Courthouse	0.4 miles	2003
Austin Masonic and Odd Fellows Hall	0.5 miles	2003
St. Augustine's Catholic Church	0.5 miles	2003
Austin City Hall	0.5 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000752 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lander County	All 12 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.