Yerington, Nevada Yerington, Nevada Main Street (SR 208) in downtown Yerington Main Street (SR 208) in downtown Yerington Location of Yerington, Nevada Location of Yerington, Nevada Yerington, Nevada is positioned in the US Yerington, Nevada - Yerington, Nevada State Nevada Yerington is a town/city in Lyon County, Nevada, United States.
It is the current governmental center of county of Lyon County, the first governmental center of county being established at Dayton on November 29, 1861. After the Dayton Court House burned down in 1909, the seat was moved to Yerington in 1911.
Yerington is positioned at the intersection of US 95 - A and Nevada State Route 208.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.6 square miles (22.3 km2), all land. Watering an alfalfa field in Yerington, Nevada The average homehold size was 2.29, and the average family size was 2.97.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.7% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 22.2% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 25.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $31,151, and the median income for a family was $39,038.
The Yerington Paiute Tribe of the Yerington Colony and Campbell Ranch is headquartered in Yerington. "Darcy Farrow," a folk song written by Steve Gillette and Tom Campbell, mentions Yerington ("Her eyes shone bright like the pretty lights / That shine in the evening out of Yerington town," 7-8) and other places and landmarks in the area, including Virginia City, the Carson Valley, and the Truckee River.
Yerington experiences a borderline cool desert climate (Koppen BWk)/cool semi-arid climate (BSk).
Yerington is noticeably more dry than areas even marginally closer to the Sierra Nevada it receives only half as much rain as Carson City, a third as much as South Lake Tahoe and only one-eighth as much as Nevada City, California on the Sierra slopes.
Because the drying effect of the Pine Nut Mountains is most pronounced in the winter, Yerington receives very little snow in most years: the median monthly snow flurry is zero except in January when it is 0.5 inches or 0.013 metres, although in the very cold and snowy month of January 1916 as much as 37.0 inches (0.94 m) fell and that season saw a total of 39.5 inches (1.00 m).
January 2017 proved the first month to exceed 4 inches or 101.6 millimetres of rain when it totalled 4.55 inches (115.6 mm). The wettest "rain year" has been from July 1955 to June 1956 with 9.06 inches (230.1 mm) and the driest from July 1949 to June 1950 with only 1.62 inches (41.1 mm), although the calendar year of 1983 saw 10.58 inches or 268.7 millimetres.
The most rain in one day is 2.02 inches (51.3 mm) on September 18, 1955, closely rivalled by December 23 of that year when 2.00 inches (50.8 mm) fell.
On average, 2.8 afternoons each summer will exceed 100 F or 37.8 C and 57.6 afternoons reach 90 F or 32.2 C.
It is rare, though, that minima stay above 68 F or 20 C, although thirteen mornings stayed this warm in 2015.
The hottest minimum has been 78 F (25.6 C) on July 22, 2003, and the hottest temperature 107 F (41.7 C) on July 15, 2014.
In the winter, afternoons are sunny and cool to cold with all but six topping freezing on average, although mornings typically range from freezing to frigid: 152 mornings fall below freezing in an average year and two fall to or below 0 F or 17.8 C.
The coldest temperature on record is 26 F ( 32.2 C) on January 21, 1937, and the coldest month January 1949 which averaged 12.4 F or 10.9 C with a mean minimum of 4.6 F ( 20.3 C).
The coldest afternoon is 6 F or 14.4 C, which occurred on February 6, 1989 and again on December 22 of 1990.
Climate data for Yerington, Nevada (1971 to 2000; extremes since 1894) Record high F ( C) 72 Average high F ( C) 46.1 Average low F ( C) 20.9 Record low F ( C) 26 Average rain inches (mm) 0.49 Average snow flurry inches (cm) 1.9 Average rain days ( 0.01 inch) 4.0 4.2 4.1 2.6 3.8 2.8 1.9 1.9 2.2 2.8 3.3 3.5 37.1 Average snowy days ( 0.1 inch) 0.7 0.5 0.4 trace trace 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.2 2.2 "City of Yerington Website".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Yerington city, Nevada".
Laws of the Territory of Nevada passed at the first regular session of the Legislative Assembly.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Yerington Paiute Tribe].
National Weather Service; NOW Data, Reno, Nevada "Climatography of the United States No.
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