Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
From the record
“The Lahontan Dam is a dam situated on the Carson River in the Carson Desert between Carson City, Nevada and Fallon in Nevada, United States. Its impoundment is known as the Lahontan Reservoir or Lake Lahontan.”
Wikipedia article Lahontan Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Churchill County · listed in 1981 · category: Structure · built in 1915.
National Register reference number.81000381- 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
7 since 2007
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lahontan Dam and Power Station
between 2007 and 2019, burning about 440 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Debris and open burning
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
10 workings within 5 miles of Lahontan Dam and Power Station: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Bentonite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Fallon, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 heavy rain.
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.
Two separate heavy rain events, one on the 4th and one on the 7th, caused ponding of water to more than one foot deep at the Ideal Mobile Home Park. Other areas of Fallon had periodic standing water and minor flooding, some due to poor drainage.
Thunderstorm outflow winds estimated at 75 mph caused scattered damage across Fallon including 5 downed power poles, a large tree blown into a fuel storage tank and a destroyed home gazebo.
A trained weather spotter reported wind gusts to 43 knots (50 mph) near Fallon Station. The strong wind produced blowing dust which reduced visibility to around 3 miles. A tree was blown over onto a power line which resulted in a loss of power for a few minutes.
A trained weather spotter reported that a 20-ft tall 2-ft diameter tree was blown down onto a fence. Numerous small branches from other trees were also broken by the strong wind gusts.
A line of thunderstorms approximately 15 to 30 miles west of Fallon produced outflow winds as high as 49 mph gusting to 60 mph at the Naval Air Station in Fallon. Visibility was reduced to between 1 and 2 miles as the wind kicked up large amounts of dust.
A trained weather spotter located 1 mile southwest of Fallon estimated wind gusts of 52 knots (60 mph). Power outages were reported along with areas of blowing dust.
A trained weather spotter located 4 miles SSW of Fallon reported a thunderstorm wind gust to 52 knots (60 mph). The wind gust produced an area of blowing dust which reduced visibility to less than 1 mile.
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.
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.
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