Carson Valley Improvement Club Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Carson Valley Improvement Club Hall is a historic building located at 1606 Esmeralda Avenue in Minden, Nevada. The building was constructed in 1912 as a meeting hall for the Carson Valley Improvement Club.”
Wikipedia article Carson Valley Improvement Club Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1983 · 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. 1606 Esmeralda Ave., Minden, 89423
When was it listed? August 1983
Category. building
Census division. Gardnerville-Minden
National Register reference number. 83004184 - 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Carson Valley Improvement Club Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Firearms and explosives 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
30 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	WALLEY
3 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	MOTT
29 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	East Fork Fire and Paramedic District	88
23 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Carson City District Office	RANCH
31 July 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Carson City District Office	BIA 12
28 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	WARRIOR
26 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	LOWER ROAD
21 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	BAKER

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Carson Valley Improvement Club Hall: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur, Uranium, Thorium, Geothermal. 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
Hunch and Lucky Strike Claims	Uranium, Thorium	Occurrence	Allanite
Sawmill Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Section 15 Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur	Occurrence
Valleys Hot Spring	Geothermal	Producer
Bing Materials Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Johnson Genoa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nev. Contractors Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rancho Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minden, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 4 heavy rain, 2 flood, 1 lightning, 1 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
January 2006	Flood	Minden	$524,000	no account filed
July 2001	Lightning	Minden	$2,000	no account filed
November 2018	Heavy Rain	Minden	-	CO-OP Observer in Minden reported 0.52 inches of rainfall from 21 November 1100PST to 22 November 0600PST.
April 2018	Flood	Minden	-	Trained weather spotter reported that the East Fork of the Carson River was above its banks between Cedarwood Drive and Muller Lane. Ending time of flooding is based upon data from a nearby USGS gauge.
May 2018	Heavy Rain	Minden	-	COOP observer station MINN2, Minden reported 0.58 inches of rainfall over a 24-hour period from 24 May 0500PST to 25 May 0500PST.
July 2005	Flash Flood	Minden	-	Heavy rainfall over the Pine Nut Mountains caused flash flooding in the Johnson Lane area north of Minden. Several roads were closed because of the high water.
July 2003	Heavy Rain	Minden	-	A spotter measured .60 inches of rain in 15 minutes from a thunderstorm.
November 2002	Heavy Rain	Minden	-	24 hour rainfall total of 1.75 inches.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Farmers' Bank of Carson Valley	under 500 feet	2000
Farmers Bank of Carson Valley	under 500 feet	1986
Minden Inn	under 500 feet	1986
Minden Flour Milling Company	0.1 miles	1978
Minden Wool Warehouse	0.1 miles	1986
Douglas County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83004184 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 24 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.