Berlin Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Berlin Historic District encompasses the ghost town of Berlin in Nye County, Nevada. The town was established in 1897 as part of the Union Mining District after the opening of the Berlin Mine the previous year.”
Wikipedia article Berlin Historic District (Berlin, Nevada), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Nye County · listed in 1971 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Off NV 23, Berlin
When was it listed? November 1971
Category. district
Census division. Gabbs
National Register reference number. 71000490 - 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

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Berlin Historic District in 2001, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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	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
31 August 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	MUD HOLE

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 92 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 92 workings within 5 miles of Berlin Historic District: 40 past producers, 22 occurrences, 18 prospects, 6 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Mercury, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Alexander and Brooklyn	Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Plant
Berlin Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Iron	Past Producer	1898
Boulder Prospect	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Prospect
Copper King	Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Good Luck Mine	Copper, Lead, Zinc, Antimony, Gold	Occurrence	1898
Grantsville Mine	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1863
Grantsville Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1860, 1863, 1970
Grantsville Summit Prospect	Gold, Mercury, Silver	Prospect
Jjj Prospect	Zinc, Copper	Prospect
Landmark Prospect	Gold, Silver, Antimony, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect

Every working recorded in Nye 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000490 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nye County	All 53 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.