Winnemucca, Nevada Winnemucca, Nevada Downtown Winnemucca viewed from Winnemucca Mountain Downtown Winnemucca viewed from Winnemucca Mountain Humboldt County and City of Winnemucca, Nevada Humboldt County and City of Winnemucca, Nevada Winnemucca, Nevada is positioned in the US Winnemucca, Nevada - Winnemucca, Nevada Named for Chief Winnemucca Winnemucca (Listeni/ w n m k /) is the only incorporated town/city in and is the governmental center of county of Humboldt County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a total populace of 7,396, up 3.1 percent from the 2000 census figure of 7,174.
The town was titled for the 19th-century Chief Winnemucca of the small-town Northern Paiute tribe, who traditionally lived in this area.
Winnemucca, loosely translated, means "one moccasin." The chief's daughter, Sarah Winnemucca, was an promote for education and fair treatment of the Paiute and Shoshone tribes in the area.
In 1883 Sarah Winnemucca presented the first autobiography written by a Native American woman, based on hundreds of lectures she'd given in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.
On September 16, 1868, the Central Pacific Railroad reached Winnemucca, and was officially opened on October 1 of that year.
In honor of this heritage, Winnemucca hosts an annual Basque Festival.
On September 19, 1900, Butch Cassidy's gang robbed the First National Bank of Winnemucca of $32,640.
Winnemucca's brothel district, while lesser now than in the 1980s, is known as "The Line" or "The Ring Circle", based on the layout of the street where the brothels are located. Sex workers in the town must register their vehicles with the small-town police. According to a billboard along State Route 140 (the "Winnemucca to the Sea Highway"), Winnemucca styles itself "The City of Paved Streets".
Winnemucca is home to the Buckaroo Hall of Fame and Heritage Museum.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Winnemucca had a vibrant Chinatown.
The Chinese originally came to the region as workers on the transcontinental Central Pacific Railroad, which reached Winnemucca in 1868.
He was on a fund-raising tour of the United States to help the Xinhai Revolution. The Joss House, the last structure associated with Chinatown, was completed on March 8, 1955, by order of the Winnemucca City Council. Winnemucca straddles the Humboldt River Winnemucca is positioned at 40 58 6 N 117 43 36 W (40.968212, 117.726662). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.4 square miles (24.3 km2), all land. Winnemucca's climate is semi-arid (Koppen climate classification BSk), averaging a mere 8.28 in (210 mm) of rain annually.
The highest recorded temperature in Winnemucca was 109 F (43 C), on July 11, 2002, and the lowest recorded temperature was 37 F ( 38 C) on December 22, 1990. Freezing temperatures have been observed in every month of the year.
Climate data for Winnemucca, Nevada (Winnemucca Municipal Airport), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1877 present Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 4.7 3.5 2.7 1.9 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 2.9 4.6 21.0 South Bridge Street in downtown Winnemucca The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 83.41% White, 2.23% African American, 0.89% Native American, 0.32% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 9.60% from other competitions, and 3.51% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.2% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 30.6% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada has its command posts in Winnemucca. Winnemucca State Bank and Trust building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Interstate 80 in Winnemucca Winnemucca Basque Festival.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to Winnemucca.
The Winnemucca passenger rail station, at 209 West Railroad Street, is unstaffed and on-site ticket revenue are not available.
Historically, Winnemucca was a station on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Winnemucca is near the half-way point between Salt Lake City and San Francisco along Interstate 80, which passes through town.
US Route 95 also goes through Winnemucca.
Local aviation needs are served by the Winnemucca Municipal Airport, positioned about 5 miles southwest of downtown.
Ruby Radio operates airways broadcast KHYX-FM with a 100,000 watt signal on 102.7 FM, serving Winnemucca and its outlying communities.
Many of Winnemucca's inhabitants are working by quarrying companies such as Newmont and Barrick Gold or by companies serving the quarrying industry.
Until 2013, Winnemucca Farms directed the world's biggest potato dehydration plant. Humboldt County School District operates schools serving Winnemucca.
Three K-4 elementary schools, Grass Valley, Sonoma Heights, and Winnemucca Grammar School, serve sections of Winnemucca.
All of Winnemucca is zoned to French Ford Middle School (5 6), Winnemucca Junior High School (7 8), and Albert M.
Sharron Angle, Member of the Nevada Assembly; taught art for five years as a lecturer at Western Nevada Community College in Winnemucca House of Representatives; had his ashes scattered on the Humboldt River near Winnemucca Winnemucca is mentioned in the American version of the song "I've Been Everywhere", recorded, for instance, by Hank Snow (1962), the Statler Brothers (1973), Lynn Anderson (1970), and Johnny Cash (1993).
The song begins, "I was totin' my pack along the dusty Winnemucca road." Winnemucca is featured prominently in the novel Revoltingly Young by C.D.
In Civilization V, Winnemucca is one of the metros/cities which Shoshone country can found.
Winnemucca is also a setting in two Tales of the City novels More Tales of the City and The Days of Anna Madrigal, a series of nine novels by American author Armistead Maupin.
Anna Madrigal, a transgender character was depicted as having been born in Winnemucca, Nevada as Andy Ramsey.
In the movie The Encounter, Jaci Velasquez's character Melissa is on a trip to Winnemucca when the major plot affairs unfold.
Rod Mc - Kuen's poem Winnemucca, Nevada, in his book Come to Me in Silence, describes his first desk in school. The town serves as the namesake for the alternative nation band Richmond Fontaine's 2002 album, Winnemucca, which prominently features the town in the opening track "Winner's Casino". a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Winnemucca city, Nevada".
Omer Stewart, Review: "Gae Whitney Canfield, 'Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes', Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1983", Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 5(2), 1983, accessed 12 February 2014 "The History of Winnemucca" (PDF).
"Boyhood Days in Winnemucca, 1901 1910." "Humboldt Pioneers accomplishment to save famed Joss House rebuffed by City Council".
"Baud Street Winnemucca" (PDF).
"Monthly Averages for Winnemucca, NV (89445)".
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"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Subcounty populace estimates: Nevada 2000 2007". Population Division.
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