Minden, Nevada Minden, Nevada Location of Minden, Nevada Location of Minden, Nevada Minden, Nevada is positioned in the US Minden, Nevada - Minden, Nevada State Nevada Minden is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. The populace was 3,001 at the 2010 census.
It was established in 1906 by Heinrich Friedrich Dangberg Jr., who titled it after the town of Minden, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was near his father's birthplace. Minden was established on business territory of the Dangberg Home Ranch and Dangberg commissioned most of the town's early buildings. Minden has had a postal service since 1906. Highway 395 runs through Minden.
It is also the end of State Route 88, which becomes California State Route 88 on the west side of the state line.
The Douglas ground of the Western Nevada College is positioned in Minden.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the census-designated place (CDP) of Minden has a total region of 4.3 square miles (11 km2), of which 4.3 square miles (11 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.47%) is water.
Its location, east of the Sierra Nevada range, favors lee wave formation.
Summers are hot to very hot amid the day, with 45.3 afternoons topping 90 F or 32.2 C and 2.4 afternoons getting over 100 F or 37.8 C; however, mornings even in summer are very cool to cold and between June and August two mornings will fall on average to under freezing.
Rainfall is very rare amid the summer as the monsoon practically never reaches this far west: in July more than four years in ten record no calculable rain and only one in twenty expects 1 inch or 25.4 millimetres.
Temperatures of 0 F ( 17.8 C) or below can be expected on four mornings each winter, although all but seven afternoons each year can be expected to top freezing, whilst amid the three winter months 41 afternoons will typically top 50 F or 10 C.
The hottest temperature on record is 109 F (42.8 C) on July 6, 2007 and the coldest is 24 F or 31.1 C, which occurred on January 21, 1916, January 26, 1949 and February 7, 1989.
The coldest afternoon was on January 9, 1937 when the temperature did not top 4 F ( 15.6 C) and the hottest minimum 67 F or 19.4 C on August 28 and 29, 1906, June 25, 1927 and August 20, 1931.
The majority of rain occurs from winter Pacific storm systems, although the Sierra Nevada precipitation shadow limits the rain they produce in Nevada.
The wettest "rain year" has been from July 1937 to June 1938 with 17.18 inches (436.4 mm) and the driest from July 1959 to June 1960 with 3.31 inches (84.1 mm).
The wettest days on record has been December 30, 2002 with 3.90 inches or 99.1 millimetres, whilst with at least 8.30 inches or 210.8 millimetres, December 2002 was also the wettest single month on record.
Winter afternoons are warm enough in Minden that most rain occurs as rain, although the mean snow flurry is 20.9 inches or 0.53 metres and the median 8.4 inches or 0.21 metres.
The cold, wet month of January 1916, however, saw as much as 52.0 inches (1.32 m) of snow and the season from July 1908 to June 1909, 70 inches (1.78 m); however, no calculable snow fell between July 1962 and June 1963. Climate data for Minden, Nevada (1971-2000) Record high F ( C) 72 Average high F ( C) 47.4 Average low F ( C) 16.7 Record low F ( C) 24 Average rain days ( 0.01 inch) 5.5 5.3 4.4 2.4 3.1 2.1 1.2 1.9 2.5 2.8 3.8 4.1 39.1 Average snowy days ( 0.1 inch) 2.4 1.8 1.4 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.9 1.6 8.9 The Minden Flour Milling Company is one of eight sites in Minden listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
There were 1,231 housing units at an average density of 288.3 per square mile (111.3/km ).
In the CDP the populace was spread out with 21.9% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 22.7% from 25 to 44, 27.5% from 45 to 64, and 23.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
Scenes from the films Chicken Every Sunday (1949), The Wizard (film) (1989) and Charley Varrick (1973), were shot in Minden.
Scenes for The Wizard (film) (1989) were filmed in the historic Minden Inn, which was disguised as a bus depot amid the recording, and on Esmeralda Avenue, which can be seen when Beau Bridges throws a shovel into the street while chasing a car.
Lauren Scyphers - Miss Nevada 2006; attended high school in Minden.
James Settelmeyer - Member of the Nevada Senate; lives in Minden.
Post Offices in Douglas County, Nevada National Weather Service; NOW Data, Reno, Nevada "Climatography of the United States No.
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