Photograph of Tonopah-Extension Mining Company Power Building — Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tonapah-Extension Mining Company Power Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Tonapah Extension Mining Company Power Building is a historic power plant located on Main Street in Tonopah, Nevada. The building was constructed by 1920 by the Tonopah Extension Mining Company, possibly as a replacement for a 1909 plant.”
Wikipedia article Tonopah Extension Mining Company Power Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Nye 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Tonopah, 89049
When was it listed? May 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Tonopah MRA
Census division. Tonopah
National Register reference number. 82003254 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Tonapah-Extension Mining Company Power Building in 2007, burning under an acre 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	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
29 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Battle Mountain District Office	TONOPAH

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 106 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 106 workings within 5 miles of Tonapah-Extension Mining Company Power Building: 52 past producers, 29 occurrences, 13 unknowns, 7 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Uranium, Gold, Silver. 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
Amalgamated Placers	Tin, Gold, Tungsten	Unknown
B.C.H. Minerals Co. Property	Gold, Silver, Platinum	Occurrence	Gold
Brougher Divide Mine	Mercury, Gold, Copper, Silver, Molybdenum	Past Producer
Connolly	Stone, Dimension	Unknown
Desert Queen Shaft	Tungsten, Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Divide Extension Shaft & Lode	Silver, Molybdenum, Mercury, Manganese, Gold, Barium-Barite	Unknown
Esmeralda 04-4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
G & H Claims	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Arsenic, Molybdenum, Gold	Unknown
Garibaldi Claims	Uranium, Molybdenum	Occurrence	Unknown
Gold Zone Divide Mining Co. Property	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1901

Every working recorded in Nye County

Storms near this property

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tonopah, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 7 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 2006	Lightning	Tonopah	1 killed, 1 hurt	A 16 year old boy was struck and killed by lightning when he and his dad got out of their pickup truck to check the tires. His father was thrown to the ground when the lightning struck. The father was taken to the hospital for treatment and released. The boy's mother and sister stayed in the truck and were unharmed.
August 2017	Flash Flood	Tonopah	$5,000	Flash flooding occurred in the town of Tonopah damaging some road shoulders. Damages are estimated.
July 2014	Flash Flood	Tonopah	$3,000	Heavy rain from a thunderstorm caused flash flooding in the town of Tonopah. Water 1 to 1.5 feet deep flowed down main street. Water seeped into one business in downtown. Some asphalt was lifted at a Shell gas station. Damages are estimated.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Tonopah	$1,500	Water to 18 deep was reported flowing across U.S. 95 southeast of of Tonopah. Minor road damage occurred.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Tonopah	$1,500	Public reports via social media videos and pictures of street flooding in Tonopah.
August 2015	Flash Flood	Tonopah	$1,000	Multiple reports were received of flooding on Route 89 near the Crescent Dunes solar energy plant. Damages are estimated.
August 2014	Flash Flood	Tonopah	$1,000	Six inches of water were reported flowing down the shoulders and side roads in Tonopah. Estimated three feet of flowing water in dry washes. Damages estimated.
September 2014	Flash Flood	Tonopah	$1,000	Heavy rain from thunderstorms sent water and debris across State Highway 376 from mile post 8 to 14. Damages estimated.
July 2021	Flood	Tonopah	-	Law enforcement reported minor flooding at the corner of Main street and Cutting. An estimated 2-3 inches was flowing over the roadway per social media photo. Deputy estimated the flooding lasted 30 minutes, and no damage was reported. A nearby station (CMP23) recorded 0.79 inches of rain that fell in 40 minutes to 1 hours time.

Every storm recorded in Nye 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

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
Tonapah Liquor Company Building	under 500 feet	1982
Verdi Lumber Company Building	under 500 feet	1982
Arthur Raycraft House	0.3 miles	1982
Cal Shaw Stone Row House	0.3 miles	1982
Samuel C. Dunham House	0.5 miles	1982
Nye County Courthouse	0.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003254 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nye County	All 53 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.