Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
From the record
“Virginia and Truckee Railroad 27 is a 4-6-0 "Ten-Wheeler" type steam locomotive. It was on display at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City, Nevada, but was traded with The Dayton and is currently on display at the Comstock History Center in Virginia City.”
Wikipedia article Virginia and Truckee Railway Locomotive No. 27, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carson City · listed in 2004 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.04001198- 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
154 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Virginia and Truckee Railway Locomotive #27
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,492 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
46
Natural
41
Recreation and ceremony
27
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Debris and open burning
6
Arson/incendiarism
5
Fireworks
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
1
Firearms and explosives use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
51 workings within 5 miles of Virginia and Truckee Railway Locomotive #27: 26 past producers, 11 occurrences, 9 prospects, 3 unknowns.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Carson City, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 21 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 dust devil.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
A women and child were slightly injured by falling tree branches when thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 50 mph blew through Mills Park in Carson City.
A possible dust devil descended the foothills just west of Carson City. Flying debris generated by the dust devil damaged 12 automobiles in the DMV parking lot.
The Nevada Appeal newspaper reported that strong wind gusts brought down tree limbs in Carson City. One downed tree limb on Fifth Street knocked out power to 900 residents, including the Carson City Courthouse and Sheriff's Department.
A CoCORAHS station (NV-CC-23) located 1.0 mi W of Carson City, NV, and a trained spotter located 2.0 mi N of Stewart, NV, reported a 24 hr rainfall storm total of 1.33 inches and 1.23 inches.
A CO-OP Observer located 1.6 mi S of Carson City, NV, and a CoCoRAHs Station (NV-CC-14) located 4.4 mi N of Carson City, NV, reported storm total rainfall amounts of 0.70 and 0.56 inches respectively.
Trained weather spotter 1 mile northeast of Carson City reported 0.96 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 24 December 0700PST to 25 December 0700PST.
Trained weather spotter in Carson City reported 2.35 inches of storm total rainfall from 20 March 1134PST to 23 March 1134PST. 0.81 inches of that rain fell from 22 March 1134PST to 23 March 1134PST.
CoCoRaHS station NV-CC-14, 3 miles north-northeast of Carson City reported 0.53 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 16 May 0600PST to 17 May 0600PST.
Six miles east of the Waterfall Fire burn area 0.75 inches of rain fell in one hour. Three feet of standing water was reported in the Plaza Shopping Center along U.S. Highway 50.
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.
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.
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