Carson City Post Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Carson City Post Office is a historic building in Carson City, Nevada built from 1888 to 1891. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Carson City Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carson City · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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. 401 N. Carson St., Carson City (Independent City), 89701
When was it listed? February 1979
Category. building
Census division. Carson City
Architectural style. Romanesque architecture
Architect. Mifflin E. Bell
National Register reference number. 79003440 - 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

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Carson City Post Office between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,167 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 5 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	56
Natural	45
Recreation and ceremony	33
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Firearms and explosives use	11
Fireworks	6
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	3
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
9 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	BRUNSWICK
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carson City District Office	ARROWHEAD
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carson City District Office	AMBROSE
8 September 2005	Other causes	under an acre	Carson City District Office	TRAVEL
8 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	KOONTZ
8 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	MEXICAN
5 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District	POLECAT
4 September 2019	Natural	5.3 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	JACKS

Every fire recorded in Carson City

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Carson City Post Office: 27 past producers, 12 occurrences, 9 prospects, 3 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Uranium. 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
Athens Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Brunswick Canyon Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Carson Black Lead Mine	Graphite	Past Producer	1903
Carson City Monazite-Bearing Placer	REE, Chromium, Gold, Iron, Zirconium	Prospect
Carson Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Tungsten	Prospect
Crystal Claims	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer
Lucky Strike Group	Uranium, Silver, Gold	Prospect
Mahogany Rock Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
May Day	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
North Carson	Copper, Silver, Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Carson City

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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
U.S. Mint	under 500 feet	1975
Virginia and Truckee Railroad Depot-Carson City	under 500 feet	1998
Dat So La Lee House	0.1 miles	1994
Lew M. Meder House	0.1 miles	1978
Orion Clemens House	0.2 miles	1979
West Side Historic District	0.2 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003440 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carson City	All 43 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.