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Photograph of St. Augustine's Catholic Church (Austin, Nevada)
Photograph by Jarenblake, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Augustine's Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Augustine's Catholic Church of Austin, Nevada, United States, located at 113 Virginia St., was built in 1866 and is Nevada's oldest Catholic church building. It includes Gothic Revival and Italianate architecture.”

Wikipedia article St. Augustine's Catholic Church (Austin, Nevada), 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 Wikipedia article

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. 113 Virginia St., Austin, 89310
  • When was it listed? August 2003
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Austin
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 03000758 - 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 St. Augustine's Catholic Church 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
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestAUSTIN
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeREEDS WILLOW
21 September 2000Naturalunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeAUSTIN
20 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeRODEO
10 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBOB SCOTT (309)
1 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestBADE
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeSUBSTATION
30 August 1998Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestROADSIDE

Every fire recorded in Lander County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 189 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 189 workings within 5 miles of St. Augustine's Catholic Church: 159 past producers, 13 unknowns, 11 prospects, 4 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Amador MineAntimony, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Austin Custom MillAntimony, Gold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Bc and Ar ClaimsGold, Uranium, ZincProspect
Belle Wilder InclineSilver, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Cambrian and New York MineSilver, Copper, Lead, GoldPast Producer1869
Castle Mountain MineLead, Manganese, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperUnknown
Eclipse MineSilver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerVein
Eclipse TunnelSilver, Copper, GoldUnknown
Frost ShaftSilver, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Hardy MineGold, Lead, SilverPast 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Flash FloodAustin$1,000Reports and pictures from social media showed flash flooding in and around Austin. Time estimated based off radar. Damages are estimated.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAustin-Reported by the Desatoya RAWS station.
July 2003Flash FloodAustin-Lander county sheriff reported water running over state highway 305 between Austin and Battle Mountain.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAustin-Red Butte Raws reported a wind gust to 60 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAustin-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAustin-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Austin Masonic and Odd Fellows Hallunder 500 feet2003
Austin City Hallunder 500 feet2003
Austin Historic Districtunder 500 feet1971
Lander County Courthouseunder 500 feet2003
Austin Methodist Church0.1 miles2003
St. George's Episcopal Church0.2 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000758 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lander CountyAll 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.