Reese-Johnson-Virgin House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Reese-Johnson-Virgin House is a historic Gothic Revival-style house at 193 Genoa Ln. in Genoa, Nevada. Also known as The Pink House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Reese-Johnson-Virgin House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas 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.
Listed as. Reese--Johnson--Virgin House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 193 Genoa Ln., Genoa, 89411
When was it listed? July 2004
Category. building
Census division. Genoa-Jacks Valley
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 04000728 - 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Reese-Johnson-Virgin House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 639 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 8 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	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	16
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	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 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	SKYLINE
7 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	LIBRARY
25 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	not named
25 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	USFS 094
24 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	KINGSBURY
24 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	not named
20 September 2006	Other causes	1.0 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	GENOA 2
20 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	KINGSBURY

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Reese-Johnson-Virgin House: 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Sulfur, Copper. 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
Genoa Claims	Gold, Copper, Silver	Unknown
Granite Group	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	Chrysocolla
Hunch and Lucky Strike Claims	Uranium, Thorium	Occurrence	Allanite
Kingbury Queen Prospect	Quartz, Uranium	Prospect
Section 21 Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Valleys Hot Spring	Geothermal	Producer
Section 10 Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur	Occurrence
Section 15 Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur	Occurrence
Granite Group Nos 1-5	Uranium	Prospect
Hunch and Lucky Strike Claims	Uranium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Genoa, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 3 heavy rain, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning, 1 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
January 2017	Flood	Genoa	$750,000	Kingsbury Grade (Highway 207) was closed due to a previously-repaired (in December 2016) sinkhole re-opening with the heavy rain. The damage estimate is based on the contracts awarded for repairing both the December and January incidents.
June 2007	Lightning	Genoa	$10,000	The Nevada Appeal newspaper reported that lightning struck a house in Genoa around 5:30 pm PDT. The lightning strike tore a hole in the roof. The newspaper article stated that no fire or injuries from the lightning bolt were reported.
October 2023	Heavy Rain	Genoa	-	A CO-OP Observer station (DAGN2 ) located at Dagget Pass, NV reported a total rainfall amount of 0.62 inches.
December 2022	Heavy Rain	Genoa	-	Mesonet Station (NCVA) NW Minden located 3.0 mi ESE of of Genoa, NV, and mesonet station (NSPO) located at Spooner Summit, NV, reported rainfall totals of 2.37 inches and 2.19 inches respectively.
April 2018	Debris Flow	Genoa	-	Kingsbury Grade (State Route 207) was closed due to a landslide from the early afternoon of 6 April to the afternoon of 7 April.
April 2018	Heavy Rain	Genoa	-	Social media user in Genoa reported 0.92 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 6 April 1040PST to 7 April 1040PST.
July 2001	Wildfire	Genoa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Genoa Historic District	0.1 miles	1975
Home Ranch	4.8 miles	1980
Minden Elementary School	5.4 miles	2008
Minden Wool Warehouse	5.4 miles	1986
Douglas County Courthouse	5.5 miles	1986
Minden Butter Manufacturing Company	5.5 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000728 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 24 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.