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Photograph of Nevada Northern Railway - McGill Depot
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Nevada Northern Railway-McGill Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“The Nevada Northern Railway - McGill Depot in McGill, Nevada was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.”

Wikipedia article McGill station (Nevada), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for White Pine County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Nevada Northern Railway--McGill Depot - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1 N. Ave. K, McGill, 89318
  • When was it listed? February 2015
  • Category. building
  • Census division. McGill
  • National Register reference number. 15000010 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Nevada Northern Railway-McGill Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 971 acres in total. 25 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
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
17 September 2019Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSUBSTATION
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeWHIX SIX
8 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeBASSETT
8 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeMM68
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeMCGILL SPR
4 August 1992Natural6.0 acresEly District OfficeAXE HANDLE
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeDEER
3 August 1992Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeRIDGE

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Nevada Northern Railway-McGill Depot: 8 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Silver. 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
Ely Amalgamated Copper CoLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Ely Gibraltar ClaimsLead, Gold, Copper, ZincPast ProducerAnglesite, Copper, Galena
Ely Gibraltar ClaimsLead, Copper, Gold, Iron, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Keystone DumpsCopper, Molybdenum, Lead, Gold, PotassiumPast Producer
Ray Dar #2Copper, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Red Hills Claims.Silver, GoldOccurrence
Silver-Lead ProspectSilver, LeadOccurrence
Unnamed WorkingsLead, Copper, ZincPast Producer
(Facility) Mc Gill SmelterCopperPlant
Limekiln QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in White Pine 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

2 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
McGill Drug Store0.2 miles1998
American Legion Hall0.2 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000010 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White Pine CountyAll 21 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.