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Silver State Flour Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 7 mi. E of Paradise Valley off NV 8B, Paradise Valley
  • When was it listed? May 1976
  • Category. building
  • Census division. McDermitt
  • National Register reference number. 76001142 - 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

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Silver State Flour Mill between 1999 and 2018, burning about 428,913 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle 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
15 September 2011Natural33 acresWinnemucca District OfficeARROW J
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7,838 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMARTIN CREEK
1 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use484 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMARTIN
5 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined416,821 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMARTIN
29 July 2011Natural2,524 acresWinnemucca District OfficeMARTIN CREEK
20 July 2003Naturalunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMARTIN CRK
8 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,137 acresWinnemucca District OfficeCHIMNEY
6 October 2006Natural75 acresWinnemucca District OfficeCASSINELLI RANCH

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Silver State Flour Mill: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Arsenic, Arsenic, Gold, Mercury, Zinc. 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
Bullion Mill SiteSilver, Arsenic, Gold, Mercury, ZincPast Producer
Queen City/Martin Creek MillsiteGoldPast Producer
Lower Spring City CanyonCopperOccurrence1875, 1908
Lower Spring City CanyonCopperProspect
NBMG Sample Site 2609Silver, ArsenicOccurrence
Unnamed MineSilver, ArsenicProspect
Martin Creek MineSilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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

2 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Micca House5.0 miles1975
Paradise Valley Ranger Station5.2 miles1996

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001142 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Humboldt CountyAll 13 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.