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Tybo Charcoal Kilns

Built in 1874. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Nye County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure · built in 1874.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. About 55 mi. NE of Tonopah off U.S. 6, Tonopah, 89049
  • When was it listed? November 1974
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Ralston Valley
  • When was it built? 1874
  • National Register reference number. 74001149 - 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

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Tybo Charcoal Kilns between 1998 and 2014, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Firearms and explosives use1

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
29 September 1998Natural5.0 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeFAIRBANKS
7 August 2010Firearms and explosives use25 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeMUSIC
14 August 2014Naturalunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeEMPIRE

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Tybo Charcoal Kilns: 11 past producers, 8 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Silver, Gold, Manganese, Lead. 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
Bresnahan ProspectSilver, Lead, ZincOccurrenceGalena
Bunker Hill MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Cunningham ProspectSilver, Lead, ZincPast ProducerGalena, Sphalerite
Dimick MineLead, Silver, Gold, ZincPast ProducerGold
Ernst and Brown PropertySilver, CopperOccurrenceVein
Larsh ProspectSilver, ManganeseOccurrenceManganite
Lead King ClaimSilver, LeadOccurrence
New Hope ClaimsLead, SilverPast ProducerVein
Ramona GroupManganese, Gold, SilverPast ProducerReplacement
Ramona ManganeseManganese, Copper, Lead, Silver, GoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Nye County

Storms near this property

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tonopah, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 7 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006LightningTonopah1 killed, 1 hurtA 16 year old boy was struck and killed by lightning when he and his dad got out of their pickup truck to check the tires. His father was thrown to the ground when the lightning struck. The father was taken to the hospital for treatment and released. The boy's mother and sister stayed in the truck and were unharmed.
August 2017Flash FloodTonopah$5,000Flash flooding occurred in the town of Tonopah damaging some road shoulders. Damages are estimated.
July 2014Flash FloodTonopah$3,000Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused flash flooding in the town of Tonopah. Water 1 to 1.5 feet deep flowed down main street. Water seeped into one business in downtown. Some asphalt was lifted at a Shell gas station. Damages are estimated.
July 2018Flash FloodTonopah$1,500Water to 18 deep was reported flowing across U.S. 95 southeast of of Tonopah. Minor road damage occurred.
July 2018Flash FloodTonopah$1,500Public reports via social media videos and pictures of street flooding in Tonopah.
August 2015Flash FloodTonopah$1,000Multiple reports were received of flooding on Route 89 near the Crescent Dunes solar energy plant. Damages are estimated.
August 2014Flash FloodTonopah$1,000Six inches of water were reported flowing down the shoulders and side roads in Tonopah. Estimated three feet of flowing water in dry washes. Damages estimated.
September 2014Flash FloodTonopah$1,000Heavy rain from thunderstorms sent water and debris across State Highway 376 from mile post 8 to 14. Damages estimated.
July 2021FloodTonopah-Law enforcement reported minor flooding at the corner of Main street and Cutting. An estimated 2-3 inches was flowing over the roadway per social media photo. Deputy estimated the flooding lasted 30 minutes, and no damage was reported. A nearby station (CMP23) recorded 0.79 inches of rain that fell in 40 minutes to 1 hours time.

Every storm recorded in Nye County

Newspapers printed here

26,626 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 6,133 issues, 26,626 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
Tonopah Daily Bonanza1906 to 1929

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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001149 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nye CountyAll 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.
  • 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.