Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“The Minden Wool Warehouse is a historic building at 1615 Railroad Avenue in Minden, Nevada. Built in 1915, it was designed by prominent Nevada architect Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps for Minden founder H.”
Wikipedia article Minden Wool Warehouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
Also known as. Architecture of Frederick J. DeLongchamps TR
Census division. Gardnerville-Minden
National Register reference number.86002261- 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
21 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Minden Wool Warehouse
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 29 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
5
Debris and open burning
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
11 workings within 5 miles of Minden Wool Warehouse: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 1 prospect.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Sulfur, Uranium, Thorium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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