Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“The Fernley and Lassen Railway Depot in Fernley, Nevada was built in 1914, and was the eastern end of the Fernley and Lassen Railway line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 30 miles from Reno. Also known as the Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.”
Wikipedia article Fernley station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Lyon County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.05000513- 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
104 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Fernley and Lassen Railway Depot
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 630 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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
40
Debris and open burning
30
Fireworks
7
Natural
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Arson/incendiarism
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Smoking
2
Other causes
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
13 workings within 5 miles of Fernley and Lassen Railway Depot: 8 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Calcium, Diatomite. 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
Fernley, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 6 heavy rain, 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado.
The reports record 1 death. 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 40-foot-long break in the Truckee Canal released floodwater into portions of Fernley, Nevada on the morning of January 5th. Local newspapers reported that approximately 1500 people had to be evacuated from their homes. Water 2 to 4 feet deep affected as many as 500 homes. The Reno Gazette-Journal newspaper reported that more than $1.75 million in federal disaster housing assistance had been provided. In addition to this, Fernley city officials estimated that the cost to repair roads would be over $720,000.
The Lyon County sheriff reported house and yard flooding near Saddlehorn Way, Mallard Way and Jenny's Lane. In addition, the Wendy's in central Fernley noted flooding. Three waves of heavy thunderstorm rainfall produced up to 1.3 inches of rain (per spotter reports) between about 1500PST and 1900PST.
Training thunderstorms brought very heavy rain to the Fernley area during the afternoon and evening of the 4th. Flash flooding caused a 10 ft sinkhole to form near the intersection of Cable Canyon Rd and Seabiscuit Dr.
A severe thunderstorm produced an estimated wind gust to 65 kts in Fernley. Tree limbs and a phone line were reported down. Power outages also occurred in the area. Alternate Highway 50 was closed briefly due to blowing dust.
CoCoRaHS station NV-LY-14, 3 miles west-northwest of Fernley reported 0.69 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 6 April 0700PST to 7 April 0700PST.
CoCoRaHS station NV-LY-14, 3 miles west-northwest of Fernley reported 0.78 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 3 October 0700PST to 4 October 0700PST.
A trained weather spotter 1-mile south-southwest of Fernley reported 0.78 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 3 October 0915PST to 4 October 0915PST.
A 40-foot-long break in the Truckee Canal released floodwater into portions of Fernley, Nevada on the morning of January 5th. Local newspapers reported that approximately 1500 people had to be evacuated from their homes. Water 2 to 4 feet deep affected as many as 500 homes. The floodwaters started to recede the afternoon of January 5th but remained over the area until the afternoon of January 6th.
Public report of a tornado 6 miles south of Fernley, NV. Report confirmed by Lyon County Sheriff. Tornado in open country. Path width and length were unknown. No damage reported.
A second tornado was reported by a pilot south of the Fernley airport. This tornado was also in open country. Path width and length were unknown. No damage reported.
Storm survey on 07/24/98 reported 6 inch diameter limbs blown off trees with evidence of mud and water across roads from previous night's thunderstorms. Estimated peak wind gust 60 knots.
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
1 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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