Midas Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Midas Schoolhouse, located on Second St., two blocks east of Main St., in Midas, Nevada, was a historic schoolhouse that was built in 1928. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article Midas Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Elko 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Second St., two blks east of Main St., Midas, 89414
When was it listed? July 2004
Category. building
Census division. Mountain City
National Register reference number. 04000727 - 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Midas Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2017, burning about 98,055 acres in total. 15 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
Natural	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
16 September 1995	Natural	336 acres	Elko District Office	SQUAW CR
5 August 2015	Natural	16 acres	Elko District Office	MIDAS
30 August 2002	Natural	1.5 acres	Elko District Office	MIDAS
27 August 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	Elko District Office	SQUAW VLY
26 August 1996	Natural	7.0 acres	Elko District Office	ESMERELDA
2 August 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Elko District Office	MINE ROAD
1 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Elko District Office	STEAK
8 July 2006	Natural	3.0 acres	Elko District Office	MACKENZIE

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 78 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 78 workings within 5 miles of Midas Schoolhouse: 70 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Copper, 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
Bobcat	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Circle Bird	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Dixie Gold	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Last Chance	Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Nevada Gold	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Paradise	Tungsten	Occurrence
San Juan	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Gold Circle District (Midas)	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1907, 1908
Ken Snyder Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1907, 1908, 2006
Ken Snyder Minerex-Grande Deposit	Silver, Gold	Prospect	1994, 1997

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this property

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midas, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 6 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 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Midas	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees in town and one fell on a house. Damages are estimated.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Midas	$1,500	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph blew down several fruit trees around 30 feet tall and moved around some bails of hay. Power was out for several hours.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Midas	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds blew 2 small pieces of metal roofing off a home and an adjacent house trailer. One piece of roofing landed about 100 feet from the structures.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Midas	-	Station (ALRN2) Antelope Lake Raws, Elevation 5460 feet.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Midas	-	Downburst winds occurred at station (ALRN2) Antelope Lake Raws, Elevation 5459 feet.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Midas	-	Mesonet station, ALRN2, Antelope Lake RAWS was impacted by a thunderstorm outflow.

Every storm recorded in Elko 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000727 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Elko County	All 7 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.