American Legion Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The American Legion Hall in McGill, Nevada, United States, was built by the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company circa 1918 as accommodations for single women working at the company's employee boarding house. In 1925 the building was moved to its present location to serve as housing for single male salaried employees.”
Wikipedia article American Legion Hall (McGill, Nevada), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for White Pine County · listed in 1994 · 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.
Address. 24 Fourth St., McGill, 89318
When was it listed? December 1994
Category. building
Census division. McGill
National Register reference number. 94001404 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of American Legion Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 971 acres in total. 26 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	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
17 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	SUBSTATION
1 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ely District Office	WHIX SIX
8 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ely District Office	BASSETT
8 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ely District Office	MM68
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	MCGILL SPR
4 August 1992	Natural	6.0 acres	Ely District Office	AXE HANDLE
3 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	RIDGE
28 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	NUTSABOLTS

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of American Legion Hall: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Ely Amalgamated Copper Co	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Ely Gibraltar Claims	Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer	Anglesite, Copper, Galena
Ely Gibraltar Claims	Lead, Copper, Gold, Iron, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Keystone Dumps	Copper, Molybdenum, Lead, Gold, Potassium	Past Producer
Ray Dar #2	Copper, Lead, Silver	Occurrence
Red Hills Claims.	Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Workings	Lead, Copper, Zinc	Past Producer
(Facility) Mc Gill Smelter	Copper	Plant
Limekiln Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Limestone Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White Pine 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	McGill Drug Store	under 500 feet	1998
	Nevada Northern Railway-McGill Depot	0.2 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94001404 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White Pine County	All 21 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.