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Stewart Indian School, #1 Administration Building

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Stewart Indian School (1890-1980) was an American Indian boarding school southeast of Carson City, Nevada. Today, it is the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum.”
Wikipedia article Stewart Indian School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carson City · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1890.

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 63 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. S of Carson City off US 395, Carson City (Independent City), 89701
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Census division. Carson City
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 85002432 - 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Stewart Indian School, #1 Administration Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,420 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 3 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	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Recreation and ceremony	27
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Debris and open burning	6
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	3

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
8 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	KOONTZ
8 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	MEXICAN
4 September 2019	Natural	5.3 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	JACKS
3 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	SILVER
29 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	35 acres	Carson City District Office	VOLTAIRE 2
27 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Carson City District Office	FLINT
22 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	81 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	VOLTAIRE
20 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	MEXICAN

Every fire recorded in Carson City

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Stewart Indian School, #1 Administration Building: 23 past producers, 14 occurrences, 7 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. 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
Athens Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Bunker Hill Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten	Past Producer	Vein
Bunker Hill Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Carson Black Lead Mine	Graphite	Past Producer	1903
Carson City Monazite-Bearing Placer	REE, Chromium, Gold, Iron, Zirconium	Prospect
Crystal Claims	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer
May Day	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Ne Section 22 Shafts and Adit	Barium-Barite, Silver	Occurrence	Barite
Panama Canal Mining Co	Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer
Premier Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver, Antimony, Bismuth, Lead, Cobalt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Carson City

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
Virginia and Truckee RR. Engines No. 18, The Dayton; and No. 22, The Inyo	2.2 miles	1973
Second Railroad Car No. 21	2.2 miles	1978
McKeen Motor Car #70	2.3 miles	2005
Virginia and Truckee Railway Locomotive #27	2.3 miles	2004
Wabuska Railroad Station	2.4 miles	1984
Carson City Civic Auditorium	3.0 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002432 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carson City	All 43 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.