Friday's Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Friday's Station, on US 50 between Kingsbury Grade and Loop Road in Stateline, Nevada, was originally a two-story log-frame building prior to the addition of white lumber siding. It served as a Pony Express station and inn in 1860.”
Wikipedia article Friday's Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. US 50 between Kingsbury Grade and Loop Rd., Stateline, 89449
When was it listed? October 1986
Category. building
Census division. Zephyr Cove
National Register reference number. 86003259 - 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

322 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 322 fires within 5 miles of Friday's Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 947 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 39 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	95
Recreation and ceremony	58
Natural	43
Arson/incendiarism	39
Smoking	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Fireworks	4
Other causes	2

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
9 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	HOLLY
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
9 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	PARTY
8 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	KEYS
8 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	KAHLE
8 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	not named
7 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	EDNA 1
7 September 2007	Other causes	under an acre	Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit	SADDLE

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Friday's Station: 4 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Uranium, Copper. 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
Granite Group	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	Chrysocolla
Hunch and Lucky Strike Claims	Uranium, Thorium	Occurrence	Allanite
Kingbury Queen Prospect	Quartz, Uranium	Prospect
Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Section 21 Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Granite Group Nos 1-5	Uranium	Prospect
Hunch and Lucky Strike Claims	Uranium	Prospect
Kingsbury Queen	Uranium	Occurrence	Acmite, Torbernite

Every working 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

5 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
Lena N. Gale Cabin	2.8 miles	2001
Reese-Johnson-Virgin House	5.6 miles	2004
Genoa Historic District	5.7 miles	1975
Jobs Peak Ranch	6.5 miles	2001
Home Ranch	7.9 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003259 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.