US Post Office-Lovelock Main

Built in 1938 (Streamline Moderne). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Post Office-Lovelock Main, at 390 Main St. in Lovelock, Nevada, was built in 1938. Also known as the Lovelock Main Post Office, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office-Lovelock Main, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Pershing County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1938, Streamline Moderne, by Louis A. Simon.

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.
Listed as. US Post Office--Lovelock Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 390 Main St., Lovelock, 89419
When was it listed? February 1990
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in Nevada MPS
Census division. Lovelock
When was it built? 1938
Architectural style. Streamline Moderne
Architect. Louis A. Simon
National Register reference number. 90000134 - 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Lovelock Main between 2007 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/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
16 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pershing County	MM 102
2 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	HOLSTROM
28 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	RESERVATION
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 103
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 104B
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 104
7 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 105B
14 October 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	UNATTENDED PILE

Every fire recorded in Pershing County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Lovelock Main: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten, Perlite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Decomposed Granite	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence
Gypsite Prospect	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Lovelock Perlite Plant	Perlite	Past Producer
Perlite Prospect	Perlite	Unknown
Lone Mountain	Tungsten	Past Producer
Lone Mountain Claim	Tungsten	Occurrence	Scheelite
Red Hammer Mine	Tungsten	Past Producer
De Braga Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
El Dorado Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lovelock	$100,000	no account filed
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lovelock	-	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 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Lovelock	-	Black Rock Playa RAWS. Gust from thunderstorm outflow boundary with some dust involved.
April 2018	Heavy Rain	Lovelock	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Central Pacific Railroad Depot	under 500 feet	2004
Marzen House	0.8 miles	1981
Pershing County Courthouse	3.0 miles	1986
Vocational-Agriculture Building	6.0 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000134 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pershing County	All 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.