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Photograph of Pershing County Courthouse
Photograph by Monacat, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pershing County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Pershing County Courthouse in Lovelock, Nevada is a Classical Revival building built in 1920-21. The courthouse's plan is hexagonal with a circular dome over the central circular courtroom.”

Wikipedia article Pershing County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Pershing County · listed in 1986 · 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. 400 Main St., Lovelock, 89419
  • When was it listed? May 1986
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Lovelock
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86001077 - 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

8 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Pershing County Courthouse between 2013 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePershing CountyMM 102
29 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 99
28 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeRESERVATION
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 103
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 104B
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 104
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 105B
5 June 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWinnemucca District OfficeMM 99

Every fire recorded in Pershing County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Pershing County Courthouse: 9 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Decomposed GraniteStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Silver ProspectSilverPast Producer
Unnamed Silver ProspectSilverOccurrenceVein
De Braga PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
El Dorado Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Granite PointTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Granite PointTungstenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pershing County

Storms near this property

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lovelock, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2001Thunderstorm WindLovelock$100,000no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLovelock-NDOT weather station reported 62 MPH gusts from a weak shower/t-storm. At 557 PM a weak cell produced gusts to 56 MPH near Gerlach.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLovelock-Black Rock Playa RAWS. Gust from thunderstorm outflow boundary with some dust involved.
April 2018Heavy RainLovelock-CoCoRaHS station NV-PR-4, Lovelock reported 0.77 inches of rainfall during a 24 hour time period from 6 April 0600PST to 7 April 0600PST.

Every storm recorded in Pershing 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

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Marzen House2.2 miles1981
Central Pacific Railroad Depot3.0 miles2004
US Post Office-Lovelock Main3.0 miles1990
Vocational-Agriculture Building7.5 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86001077 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pershing CountyAll 5 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.