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Smith Hotel-Cornelius Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Smith Hotel-Cornelius Hotel, located at 100 Spring St. in Caliente, Nevada, and also once known as Scott Hotel, is a historic 3-story hotel that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.”

Wikipedia article Smith Hotel-Cornelius Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2008 · 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. Smith Hotel--Cornelius Hotel - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 100 Spring St., Caliente, 89008
  • When was it listed? June 2008
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Caliente
  • National Register reference number. 08000510 - 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Smith Hotel-Cornelius Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 107 started naturally. 1 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
Natural107
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2013Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeCOBALT
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeCNF
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeABSCOND
9 September 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeACCENT
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeOXBO
6 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreEly District OfficeDUTCH FLAT
4 September 2017Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeKERSHAW
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeKNOLL

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Smith Hotel-Cornelius Hotel: 6 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 past producers, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Mercury, Gold. 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
Advance MineGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
CalienteZeolitesOccurrence
Caliente Cobalt Mining Co.Gold, Silver, Lead, CopperOccurrenceVein
Caliente Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Caliente Perlite MillPerlitePlant
Caliente ProspectsSilver, Gold, CopperProspect1994
Gold Stake TunnelGold, Silver, Lead, ArsenicProspect
M. K. Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer1975
NBMG Sample Location 126Gold, Silver, Lead, ArsenicOccurrence
Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caliente, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 flash flood, 3 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996Flash FloodCaliente$250,000no account filed
September 2014Flash FloodCaliente$100,000A mud slide washed out a section of Union Pacific railroad track, derailing a locomotive.
September 2022Flash FloodCaliente$50,000Hwy 317 was closed, and water flowed through stores in southeast Caliente off Elle Mtn.
August 2012Flash FloodCaliente$25,000Four to five feet of water flowed out of Clover Canyon into Clover Creek, closing Highway 317.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCaliente$10,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down a dozen trees at the Caliente Youth Center.
June 2016Flash FloodCaliente$1,000Highway 93 was closed due to flooding.
July 2016Flash FloodCaliente$1,000Highway 317 was closed south of Caliente.
August 2015Flash FloodCaliente$1,000Highway 317 was flooded near the train bridge just south of Highway 93.
July 2007HailCaliente-At Beaver Dam State Park.
August 2005Flash FloodCaliente-Highway 93 impassable 10 miles west of Caliente.
August 2003Flash FloodCaliente-An intense thunderstorm produced flash flooding in and around the town of Caliente. Several roads in town were impassable from mud and debris.
October 2015HailCaliente-no account filed
July 1996Flash FloodCaliente-no account filed
July 1996HailCaliente-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Caliente Railroad Depot0.4 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000510 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln CountyAll 8 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.