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US Post Office-Yerington Main

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“US Post Office - Yerington Main is a one-story red brick building in Yerington, Nevada listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 28, 1990. It is the first and only federally-constructed post office in the city of Yerington.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Yerington, Nevada), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Lyon County · listed in 1990 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. US Post Office--Yerington Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 28 N. Main St., Yerington, 89447
When was it listed? February 1990
Category. building
Also known as. US Post Offices in Nevada MPS
Census division. Yerington
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 90000138 - 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Yerington Main between 2006 and 2008, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
10 September 2006	Other causes	under an acre	Carson City District Office	BLUESTONE
12 February 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Carson City District Office	FOX TRACK

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Yerington Main: 22 past producers, 10 prospects, 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold. 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
Bluestone Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer	1885
Lago Deposit	Copper, Molybdenum, Silver, Gold	Prospect	1961
Malachite Mine	Copper, Silver, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Gold	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mason Valley Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Iron	Past Producer	1865, 1870
Mcconnell Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer	1912
Montana - Yerington Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Iron	Past Producer	Replacement
Singatse Range Wollastonite Deposit	Wollastonite	Occurrence
Talco Prospect	Talc-Soapstone	Prospect
Taubert Number 2 Prospect	Gemstone	Past Producer	1908
Yerington Mine	Copper, Iron, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver, Uranium	Past Producer	1865, 1953

Every working recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yerington, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2007: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Yerington	$5,000	A thunderstorm wind gust blew a patio cover off it's foundation and back onto a house roof in Yerington, NV. The wind gust was estimated at 60 mph.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Yerington	-	A trained weather spotter in Yerington reported wind gusts to 52 knots (60 mph).
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Yerington	-	A trained weather spotter located 7 miles east of Yerington reported wind gusts to 52 knots (60 mph) from a thunderstorm north of Highway 95.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Yerington	-	A large cottonwood tree was blown down and fell across Highway 95A. The falling tree damaged an automobile.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Yerington	-	Peak wind gusts in thunderstorm estimated at 52 knots. No damage reported.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Yerington	-	A severe thunderstorm in Yerington (Lyon County) blew down trees and snapped tree limbs. Estimated wind gusts were at least 50 kts.

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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

3 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
Lyon County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1983
Yerington Grammar School	0.3 miles	1984
I.O.O.F. Building, Mason Valley	0.5 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000138 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lyon County	All 8 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.