Cold Springs Station Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Cold Springs Station Site, west of Austin, Nevada, is a historic stagecoach station site that was active during 1861-1869 as a passenger and freight station, and later for freight. Nearby is the location of the original Cold Springs Pony Express Station Ruins.”
Wikipedia article Cold Springs Station Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Churchill County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 51 mi. W of Austin on U.S. 50, Austin, 89406
When was it listed? February 1972
Category. site
Census division. Dixie Valley
National Register reference number. 72000762 - 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

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Cold Springs Station Site between 1996 and 2019, burning about 31,728 acres in total. 6 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	2
Firearms and explosives use	1
Smoking	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
25 September 2006	Firearms and explosives use	4.0 acres	Carson City District Office	CAMP CREEK
10 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3,000 acres	Carson City District Office	SEAL
1 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Carson City District Office	ROCK
9 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carson City District Office	ROCK CREEK
23 August 2017	Natural	2.5 acres	Carson City District Office	WILLOW
18 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Carson City District Office	OVERLAND
12 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Carson City District Office	MM 77
7 July 2017	Natural	27,506 acres	Carson City District Office	DRAW

Every fire recorded in Churchill County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Cold Springs Station Site: 5 occurrences, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver. 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
Rollo Claims	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Unnamed Silver Prospects Near Cold Springs	Silver	Occurrence	Silver
Cold Springs Claims	Silver, Gold	Prospect
Last Chance Claims	Silver, Gold	Prospect
Mineralized Site No. 11	Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Mineralized Site No. 8	Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Mineralized Site No. 9	Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Rock Creek Claims	Silver, Gold	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Silver, Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Churchill 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 72000762 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Churchill County	All 16 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.