Fort Churchill

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1957. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Fort Churchill State Historic Park is a state park of Nevada, United States, preserving the remains of a United States Army fort and a way station on the Pony Express and Central Overland Routes dating back to the 1860s. The site is one end of the historic Fort Churchill and Sand Springs Toll Road.”
Wikipedia article Fort Churchill State Historic Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Lyon County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1957 · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 15 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. U.S. 95A, 8 mi. S of U.S. 50, Weeks, 89429
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Silver Springs
When was it built? 1957
National Register reference number. 66000456 - 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

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Fort Churchill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,721 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Carson City District Office	WEEKS
22 August 2017	Natural	1,560 acres	Carson City District Office	MICRO
4 July 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Carson City District Office	BIA4
22 July 2020	Natural	62 acres	Carson City District Office	CHURCHILL BUTTES
19 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carson City District Office	ADRIAN
16 July 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Carson City District Office	RAMSEY
9 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	94 acres	Carson City District Office	CENTROID
4 June 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge	GHIGLIA

Every fire recorded in Lyon 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 Fort Churchill: 8 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jupiter Bleaching Clay	Montmorillonite	Past Producer
Old Soldier Mine	Molybdenum, Gold, Lead, Silver, Tungsten	Prospect
Marvel	Diatomite	Past Producer
Silver Springs Community Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Silver Springs County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Weeks Deposit	Diatomite	Prospect
Momi #7 Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Section 10 Gold Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Pyrite
Section 13 Adits	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Churchill Butte Mine	Tungsten	Past Producer	1941

Every working recorded in Lyon 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Buckland Station	1.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000456 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lyon County	All 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.