Humboldt Cave

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Humboldt Cave is an archeological site in Churchill County, Nevada. Thirty-one caches were excavated from the cave, but there is only one radiocarbon date of 1953±175 14C BP from the cave, which suggests that Humboldt Cave may have only been a single cultural component.”
Wikipedia article Humboldt Cave, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Churchill County · listed in 1976 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. S of Lovelock off U.S. 40, Lovelock
When was it listed? March 1976
Category. site
Census division. Carson Sink
National Register reference number. 76001140 - 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

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Humboldt Cave between 1996 and 2011, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
24 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	TRAIN
30 April 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	TRINITY

Every fire recorded in Churchill County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Humboldt Cave: 12 past producers, 10 prospects, 8 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Antimony, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Barite Prospect	Silver, Barium-Barite	Prospect
Hazel Mine	Silver, Antimony, Lead, Selenium	Past Producer	1865
Hazel Mine	Lead, Silver, Antimony	Past Producer
M. H. Claims	Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Tetrahedrite
M.H. Claims	Gold, Copper	Prospect
Madraso Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
Mopung Hills Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Prospect
NBMG Sample Site 2982	Sulfur, Mercury, Silver, Antimony	Occurrence
NBMG Sample Site 2982	Mercury, Silver, Antimony, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Prospect
Silver Occurrence	Silver, Manganese, Gold	Past Producer

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 76001140 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.