Caliente Railroad Depot

Built in 1923 (Spanish Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Caliente station is a historic Mission Revival style railway station, located in Caliente, Nevada, United States. The station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Caliente Railroad Depot, and is Nevada Historical Marker number 249.”
Wikipedia article Caliente station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1923, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, by The Parkinsons.

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.
Address. 100 Depot Ave., Caliente, 89008
When was it listed? March 1974
Category. building
Census division. Caliente
When was it built? 1923
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
Architect. The Parkinsons
National Register reference number. 74001146 - 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Caliente Railroad Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 164 acres in total. 115 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
Natural	115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Fireworks	3
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	CNF
9 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	ABSCOND
9 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	ACCENT
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	OXBO
6 September 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Ely District Office	DUTCH FLAT
4 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	KERSHAW
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	KNOLL
16 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	OAKSPRING2

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Caliente Railroad Depot: 4 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Gold, Silver, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Caliente	Zeolites	Occurrence
Caliente Hot Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Caliente Perlite Mill	Perlite	Plant
Caliente Prospects	Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Caliente Prospects	Silver, Gold, Copper	Prospect	1994
M. K. Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	1975
Quartzite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Union Pacific Quarry	Stone	Producer	Quartzite
Quicksilver Jim Claims	Mercury	Occurrence	1967
Quicksilver Jim Claims	Mercury	Occurrence

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1996	Flash Flood	Caliente	$250,000	no account filed
September 2014	Flash Flood	Caliente	$100,000	A mud slide washed out a section of Union Pacific railroad track, derailing a locomotive.
September 2022	Flash Flood	Caliente	$50,000	Hwy 317 was closed, and water flowed through stores in southeast Caliente off Elle Mtn.
August 2012	Flash Flood	Caliente	$25,000	Four to five feet of water flowed out of Clover Canyon into Clover Creek, closing Highway 317.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Caliente	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a dozen trees at the Caliente Youth Center.
June 2016	Flash Flood	Caliente	$1,000	Highway 93 was closed due to flooding.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Caliente	$1,000	Highway 317 was closed south of Caliente.
August 2015	Flash Flood	Caliente	$1,000	Highway 317 was flooded near the train bridge just south of Highway 93.
July 2007	Hail	Caliente	-	At Beaver Dam State Park.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Caliente	-	Highway 93 impassable 10 miles west of Caliente.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Caliente	-	An intense thunderstorm produced flash flooding in and around the town of Caliente. Several roads in town were impassable from mud and debris.
October 2015	Hail	Caliente	-	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Caliente	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Caliente	-	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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Smith Hotel-Cornelius Hotel	0.4 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001146 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln 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.
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.