Fallon, Nevada
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FIPS code 32-24100 | | |
GNIS feature ID | 0840412[4] | |
Website | www |
Fallon is a city in
History
The community was first populated during the
The town and post office were established on July 24, 1896, in a little shack belonging to Michael Fallon and Eliza Fallon,[8] who operated a ranch at the site.[9] Shortly afterwards, Jim Richards later operated a store near the post office.[10]
The town was officially incorporated in 1908.[10]
When
While the city has expanded greatly over the years, the "old town" area is several blocks of Maine Street. Many of the buildings here date back to the early 20th century, including the historic Fallon Theater, which is still in operation as of 2023.
On June 16, 2019, downtown (Maine Street) Fallon was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.[11]
Geography
Fallon is located in western
According to the United States Census Bureau, Fallon has a total area of 3.65 square miles (9.45 km2), of which 3.63 square miles (9.41 km2) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2), or 0.49%, is water.[13]
Demographics
As of the census
There were 3,004 households, out of which 35.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.7% were married couples living together, 15.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.5% were non-families. 30.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 3.06.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 28.4% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.5 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $35,935, and the median income for a family was $41,433. Males had a median income of $35,356 versus $22,818 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,919. About 9.5% of families and 12.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.6% of those under age 18 and 10.3% of those age 65 or over.
Between 1997 and 2003, the Fallon community experienced an unusually high incidence of
[Dr. Thomas Sinks, the associate director for science at the
Centers for Disease Control] clarified that nobody ever developed cancer because of chances. There was always a cause, and the challenge in Fallon would be to discover the common denominator among the 11 children. The unifying cause was not yet known, but eventually science would identify the commonality. The probability of the Fallon cluster being a chance event was described by Dr. Sinks as being unlikely.
In 2011, epidemiologists at the University of California, Berkeley theorized that the "space-time patterning" of the leukemia cluster was "consistent with the involvement of an infectious disease," and that a "possible mode of transmission" was "by means of a vector" since mosquitoes were "abundant in Churchill County outside of the urban area of Fallon."[17]
Education
The city is served by the Churchill County School District. Churchill County High School is the main high school and also caters to students in rural areas outside the city. Western Nevada College has a campus in Fallon.
There is a charter school, Oasis Academy.[18]
Fallon has a public library, the Churchill County Library.[19]
Climate
Fallon experiences a
Climate data for Fallon, Nevada, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1903–present | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °F (°C) | 71 (22) |
78 (26) |
84 (29) |
90 (32) |
102 (39) |
106 (41) |
108 (42) |
105 (41) |
106 (41) |
92 (33) |
81 (27) |
72 (22) |
108 (42) |
Mean maximum °F (°C) | 60.1 (15.6) |
65.8 (18.8) |
75.2 (24.0) |
81.8 (27.7) |
90.2 (32.3) |
97.3 (36.3) |
101.9 (38.8) |
99.4 (37.4) |
95.1 (35.1) |
84.8 (29.3) |
71.2 (21.8) |
61.8 (16.6) |
102.7 (39.3) |
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 46.0 (7.8) |
52.4 (11.3) |
60.7 (15.9) |
66.1 (18.9) |
74.8 (23.8) |
85.1 (29.5) |
94.2 (34.6) |
91.8 (33.2) |
83.3 (28.5) |
69.8 (21.0) |
55.9 (13.3) |
45.2 (7.3) |
68.8 (20.4) |
Daily mean °F (°C) | 33.0 (0.6) |
37.8 (3.2) |
44.6 (7.0) |
49.8 (9.9) |
58.4 (14.7) |
66.9 (19.4) |
74.7 (23.7) |
72.0 (22.2) |
63.6 (17.6) |
51.9 (11.1) |
40.2 (4.6) |
32.1 (0.1) |
52.1 (11.2) |
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 20.0 (−6.7) |
23.3 (−4.8) |
28.5 (−1.9) |
33.5 (0.8) |
41.9 (5.5) |
48.7 (9.3) |
55.3 (12.9) |
52.3 (11.3) |
43.9 (6.6) |
34.0 (1.1) |
24.5 (−4.2) |
19.0 (−7.2) |
35.4 (1.9) |
Mean minimum °F (°C) | 6.9 (−13.9) |
11.7 (−11.3) |
15.6 (−9.1) |
21.8 (−5.7) |
30.0 (−1.1) |
36.1 (2.3) |
46.0 (7.8) |
43.5 (6.4) |
33.8 (1.0) |
20.9 (−6.2) |
12.7 (−10.7) |
6.1 (−14.4) |
1.9 (−16.7) |
Record low °F (°C) | −25 (−32) |
−27 (−33) |
1 (−17) |
13 (−11) |
20 (−7) |
27 (−3) |
35 (2) |
33 (1) |
21 (−6) |
6 (−14) |
−1 (−18) |
−21 (−29) |
−27 (−33) |
Average precipitation inches (mm) | 0.63 (16) |
0.47 (12) |
0.50 (13) |
0.45 (11) |
0.68 (17) |
0.36 (9.1) |
0.12 (3.0) |
0.15 (3.8) |
0.19 (4.8) |
0.40 (10) |
0.43 (11) |
0.39 (9.9) |
4.77 (120.6) |
Average snowfall inches (cm) | 1.8 (4.6) |
0.7 (1.8) |
0.3 (0.76) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.3 (0.76) |
1.4 (3.6) |
4.5 (11.52) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 5.0 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 37.5 |
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 2.8 |
Source 1: NOAA[20] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: WRCC[21] |
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
---|---|---|---|
1900 | 741 | — | |
1910 | 1,753 | 136.6% | |
1920 | 1,758 | 0.3% | |
1930 | 1,911 | 8.7% | |
1940 | 2,400 | 25.6% | |
1950 | 2,734 | 13.9% | |
1960 | 2,959 | 8.2% | |
1970 | 4,262 | 44.0% | |
1980 | 6,438 | 51.1% | |
1990 | 7,536 | 17.1% | |
2000 | 8,606 | 14.2% | |
2010 | 8,606 | 0.0% | |
2020 | 9,327 | 8.4% | |
U.S. Decennial Census[22] |
Nuclear weapons testing
Access to the Project Shoal Area is unrestricted.[23] Access to the area is by Highway 50, Nevada Highway 839, then to an improved gravel road to the site.
In popular culture
- The Wizard, starring Fred Savage and Beau Bridges, was shot in and around Fallon.[citation needed]
- The Go-Getter, starring Zooey Deschanel and Jena Malone, mentions Fallon many times and even brings up Fallon's annual Heart 'O Gold Cantaloupe Festival. Malone's character lives in Fallon, and parts of the movie were filmed in and around Fallon.[24]
Notable people
- John C. Carpenter, rancher, businessman, and politician, was born in Fallon.[25]
- Harvey Dahl, St. Louis Rams a former offensive lineman, was born in Fallon.[26]
- Wuzzie George, Northern Paiute craftswoman and recorder of indigenous lifeways
- Luella Kirkbride Drumm, former member of the Nevada Assembly[27][28]
- U.S. Senator from New Mexico since 2013; was considered for nominee Hillary Clinton's running mate for the 2016 presidential election, born in Fallon but raised in Columbia, Missouri.
- Meaghan Martin, actress.
- Joshua Mauga, a Fallon native, played for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Twin towns
Fallon is
- Georgia Vani, Georgia
See also
- Fallon Municipal Airport
- Salmon Creek Railroad
- Spirit Cave mummy
- Federal Building and Post Office (Fallon, Nevada)
Notes
- ^ "About Fallon". Fallon Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ^ "Mayor's Office – City of Fallon". City of Fallon. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
- ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fallon, Nevada
- ^ "U.S. Census Bureau Quickfacts". Retrieved May 14, 2022.
- ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ "Fallon | Loneliest Road in America, Nevada's Highway 50". Retrieved May 28, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-87417-094-8.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 11. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 9, 2018.
- ^ a b "All About Fallon!". Fallon Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
- ^ Resources, Department of Conservation and Natural. "Downtown Fallon listed in the National Register of Historic Places". www.nevadaappeal.com. Archived from the original on July 17, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
- ^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Fallon city, Nevada". U.S. Census Bureau, American actfinder. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ Francis, Stephen S., Steve Selvin, Wei Yang, et al. "Unusual space-time patterning of the Fallon, Nevada leukemia cluster: Evidence of an infectious etiology," in Journal of Chemico-Biological Interactions, Vol. 196, Issue 3, April 5, 2012, pp. 102–109.
- ^ Minutes of the Field Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, in "Senate Hearing 107 – 318." Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002 (retrieved online June 13, 2021).
- ^ Francis and Selvin, et al. "Unusual space-time patterning of the Fallon, Nevada leukemia cluster: Evidence of an infectious etiology, Journal of Chemico-Biological Interactions, Vol. 196, Issue 3, 2012.
- ^ "Oasis Academy". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
- ^ "Nevada Public Libraries". PublicLibraries.com. Retrieved June 14, 2019.
- ^ "U.S. Climate Normals Quick Access". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved on September 7, 2022.
- ^ "Period of Record Monthly Climate Summary". Western Regional Climate Center. Retrieved on September 7, 2022
- ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ^ a b "Remediation Project Shoal Area, Nevada Division of Environmental Protection". Archived from the original on March 23, 2009.
- ^ imdb.com
- ^ 'Former Assemblyman John Carpenter Dies,' Elko Daily Free Press, Marianne Kobak McKown, November 21, 2016
- ^ "St. Louis Lineman Called for Holding Yells, "That's Not Fucking Holding!" into Ref's Open Mic, and then It Gets Weird". December 18, 2011.
- ^ Corkill, Bunny. "Luella Kirkbride Drumm." Reno, Nevada: Nevada Women's History Project, retrieved online June 19, 2021.
- ^ Louella Drumm, in “Legislature." Reno, Nevada: Nevada State Journal, February 11, 1939, p. 2.
References
- Steinmaus, C., M. Lu, R.L. Todd, A.H. Smith. Probability estimates for the unique childhood leukemia cluster in Fallon, Nevada, and risks near other U.S. military aviation facilities. Environmental Health Perspectives. 112(6): 766–771. May 2004.
External links
- City of Fallon official website
- Fallon Chamber of Commerce
- Fallon business
- Grimes Point Trail Archived December 6, 2006, at the Wayback Machine (Bureau of Land Management), with pictures of the carvings