Photograph of Goldfield Historic District — Photograph by FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Curtis and Ish Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Goldfield is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada.”
Wikipedia article Goldfield, Nevada, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 2 National Register listings published here for Esmeralda County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 106 buildingss, 4 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Roughly bounded by 5th St., Miner, Spring, Crystal and Elliott Aves., Goldfield, 89013
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. building
Census division. Goldfield
National Register reference number. 82003213 - 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Curtis and Ish Building in 1999, burning about 6 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
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 June 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	GOLDFIELD

Every fire recorded in Esmeralda County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 395 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 395 workings within 5 miles of Curtis and Ish Building: 241 prospects, 112 past producers, 32 occurrences, 7 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Silver, Copper. 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
Atlanta Mines Co. Claims	Gold, Silver, Copper, Tin	Past Producer	Famatinite
Bismuth Occurrence	Bismuth	Occurrence
Columbia	Molybdenum, Tungsten, Kaolin	Occurrence
Columbia Prospect	Tungsten, Molybdenum	Occurrence	Molybdenite, Powellite, Scheelite
Combination Mine	Gold, Silver, Tellurium, Copper, Zinc, Antimony, Arsenic, Bismuth	Past Producer	1903
Congress Prospect	Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Earth Sciences Montezuma Deposit	Gold, Aluminum, Potassium	Past Producer	1972
Five Friends Shaft	Zinc, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Florence	Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Antimony	Past Producer
Florence Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Bismuth, Zinc, Antimony	Past Producer	1903, 1904

Every working recorded in Esmeralda County

Storms near this property

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goldfield, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 2 flash flood. 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
July 2005	Flash Flood	Goldfield	-	Alkali Rd. and State Highway 264 impassable.
September 1997	Flash Flood	Goldfield	-	State Route 66 was blocked due to water running over the road. Also, winds estimated at 50 to 60 mph were reported.

Every storm recorded in Esmeralda 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 82003213 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Esmeralda County	All 2 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.