1872 California-Nevada State Boundary Marker

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The 1872 California-Nevada State Boundary Marker marks the initial point for the 1872 survey delineation of the state line between California and Nevada. The boundary marker is a small cast iron obelisk near Verdi, Nevada.”
Wikipedia article 1872 California-Nevada State Boundary Marker, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Washoe County · listed in 1981 · category: Object.

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 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. NW of Verdi on CA/NV border, Verdi, 89439
When was it listed? August 1981
Category. object
Census division. Verdi
National Register reference number. 81000387 - 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of 1872 California-Nevada State Boundary Marker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23,078 acres in total. 73 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
Natural	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Recreation and ceremony	21
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	CALIFORNIA
5 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	SILVER FOX
4 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	TREALEASE
30 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	PALLETS FIRE
3 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Reno Fire Department	BOOMTOWN
3 September 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	COUNTY
25 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	STATELINE
25 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Tahoe National Forest	VERDI

Every fire recorded in Washoe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of 1872 California-Nevada State Boundary Marker: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite. 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
Beacon Light	Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Black Panther Mine Area	Titanium, Metal	Occurrence
Dana Park Pit	Granite	Producer
Peavine	Diatomite	Occurrence
Peavine Creek Area	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Prospect
Verdi Prospect	Molybdenum, Gold	Occurrence
Walts Zinc Prospect	Zinc, Tungsten	Prospect
A.A. Jack Verdi Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Peavine Mt. D.G. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dog Creek	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Washoe County

Storms near this property

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verdi, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 heavy rain, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2005	Flood	Verdi	$5,600,000	A levee along Steamboat Creek failed and flooded the University of Nevada - Reno agricultural farm in east Reno. Around 1,800 animals were evacuated to higher ground, but 344 sheep drowned in the floodwaters. The Industrial Area in east Sparks suffered flooding, with an estimated 900 business reporting damage. Greg Street was impassable in many locations. Some areas near Glendale Avenue were covered with four feet of floodwater. A health hazard was created when raw sewage contaminated floodwaters in the Spice Island Drive area of Sparks. In downtown Reno all bridges across the Truckee River were closed. Flooding also occurred at the base of Mt. Rose Highway at its intersection with U.S. Highway 395. The Toll Road area near Steamboat was flooded, and Nevada Highway 341 (Geiger Grade) was closed.The rain-saturated soil caused trees to topple onto power lines in Incline Village. Sierra Pacific Power Company reported that around 3,000 people were without power on December 31st.
January 2006	Flood	Verdi	$623,000	no account filed
March 2025	Heavy Rain	Verdi	-	CoCoRaHS Station NV-WH-19, 9W of Reno reported 0.85 inches of rain.
October 2021	Heavy Rain	Verdi	-	Several CoCoRahs Observers and Mesonet/ASOS sites reported rainfall amounts ranging from 1-2 inches near Fernley, 3-4 inches in and around Reno Metropolitan area, and 5-8 inches in the Foothills including around Verdi near the CA/NV border.
November 2017	Heavy Rain	Verdi	-	Trained weather spotter measured 5.50 inches of rain from November 15 0800PST to November 16 1805PST.
August 2003	Tornado (F0)	Verdi	-	A very weak tornado was reported about 2 miles north of Verdi, NV on a ridge between Peavine Mountain and the Verdi Range. No damage or injuries were reported in this remote location.

Every storm recorded in Washoe 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 81000387 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washoe County	All 83 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.