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Photograph of Central Pacific Railroad Depot
Photograph by JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Central Pacific Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Central Pacific Railroad Depot in Lovelock, Nevada was erected in 1880 in the Stick style or Eastlake style, functioning as the principal point of access to the town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The building was originally located on the northeast corner of West Broadway Avenue and Main Street, but was moved by the town in 1999 to its present site across Broadway Avenue.”

Wikipedia article Lovelock station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Pershing County · listed in 2004 · 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. 1005 W. Broadway Ave., Lovelock, 89419
  • When was it listed? April 2004
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Lovelock
  • National Register reference number. 04000300 - 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

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Central Pacific Railroad Depot between 2007 and 2020, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
16 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePershing CountyMM 102
2 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeHOLSTROM
28 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeRESERVATION
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 103
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 104B
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 104
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 105B
14 October 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeUNATTENDED PILE

Every fire recorded in Pershing County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Central Pacific Railroad Depot: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten, Perlite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Decomposed GraniteStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Gypsite ProspectGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Lovelock Perlite PlantPerlitePast Producer
Perlite ProspectPerliteUnknown
Lone MountainTungstenPast Producer
Lone Mountain ClaimTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Red Hammer MineTungstenPast Producer
De Braga PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
El Dorado Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Pershing County

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lovelock, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindLovelock$100,000no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLovelock-NDOT weather station reported 62 MPH gusts from a weak shower/t-storm. At 557 PM a weak cell produced gusts to 56 MPH near Gerlach.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLovelock-Black Rock Playa RAWS. Gust from thunderstorm outflow boundary with some dust involved.
April 2018Heavy RainLovelock-CoCoRaHS station NV-PR-4, Lovelock reported 0.77 inches of rainfall during a 24 hour time period from 6 April 0600PST to 7 April 0600PST.

Every storm recorded in Pershing 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
US Post Office-Lovelock Mainunder 500 feet1990
Marzen House0.8 miles1981
Pershing County Courthouse3.0 miles1986
Vocational-Agriculture Building6.1 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000300 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pershing CountyAll 5 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.