East Ely Depot

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1907 (Mission Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for White Pine County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1907, Mission Revival architecture, by Frederick Albert Hale · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 11th St., East Ely, 89301
When was it listed? April 1984
Category. building
Census division. Ely
When was it built? 1907
Architectural style. Mission Revival architecture
Architect. Frederick Albert Hale
National Register reference number. 84002082 - 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of East Ely Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,707 acres in total. 44 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
Natural	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Fireworks	2
Firearms and explosives use	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	not named
30 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	LUCKY
3 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	BIRD
22 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	ROOKIE
19 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ely District Office	LOVES
12 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	SQUAW PEAK
11 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	LOWRY
9 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	WHIX ASSIST FIVE

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of East Ely Depot: 35 past producers, 10 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 2 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, 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
Baltimore Camas Mines Inc	Tungsten	Occurrence
Bedlam	Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Iron, Lead	Past Producer
Calumet Group	Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Consolidated Copper Mines	Chromium, Gold, Lead, Manganese, Silver, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
Egan Mill	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer	1979
Elijah Claim	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Ely Gold Mine	Mercury, Lead, Zinc, Manganese, Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Placer
Ely Gold Mine	Mercury, Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold	Unknown
Farnsworth-Ely Metal Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Green Stake	Lead, Zinc, Gold, Iron, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White Pine 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
NNRy Locomotive #40	0.2 miles	1993
Central Theater	1.0 miles	1993
Ely L. D. S. Stake Tabernacle	1.3 miles	1993
White Pine County Courthouse	1.3 miles	1986
US Post Office, Ely, Nevada	1.5 miles	2005
Capital Theater	1.6 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002082 in Record Group 79.
White Pine County	All 21 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.