Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.
—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
85historic places
—earliest paper
1861formed
486,492pop. 2020
5cemeteries
—CW battlefields
At a glance
Summary
The National Register of Historic Places includes 85 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Reno, Sparks, Crystal Bay.
Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.
Washoe County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).
1870
1880
1900
1920
1940
1950
1960
1980
2000
2020
3,091
5,664
9,141
18,627
32,476
50,205
84,743
193,623
339,486
486,492
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.
Cemeteries & historical places
USGS GNIS
5 cemeteries and 18 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.
Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed
Name
Lat
Lon
Franktown Creek Cemetery
39.27518
-119.84744
Gerlach Cemetery
40.65676
-119.36665
Mountain View Cemetery
39.5241
-119.84259
Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Cemetery
39.55241
-119.82269
Whispering Pines Cemetery
39.36074
-119.82073
Historical populated places — 18 of 18
Name
Lat
Lon
Andersons
39.46963
-119.79713
Beulah
41.81628
-119.84411
Bronco
39.39796
-119.97825
Buffalo Meadows
40.60768
-119.74103
Clarks
39.58491
-119.46629
Crystal Peak
39.52519
-119.99659
Diessner
41.85184
-119.81383
Five Mile House
39.3663
-119.66657
Heinz
39.66157
-119.99437
Hot Springs
40.86046
-119.33296
Huffaker
39.45963
-119.78102
Jumbo
39.29213
-119.70879
Marmol
39.4738
-119.99325
Mayberrys
39.50547
-119.89464
Ophir City
39.29269
-119.8263
Pyramid
39.86407
-119.61852
Roderick
39.5888
-119.37323
Upper Pyramid
39.84991
-119.59602
Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.
Historical markers
HMdb link
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