Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Fallon Historic District Fallon, NV

Fallon is a city in Churchill County, Nevada, and the county seat, located in the Lahontan Valley, founded on July 24, 1896, and incorporated in 1908, named for Michael Fallon, with 9,327 residents at the 2020 census.

The town and post office were established on July 24, 1896, in a small shack belonging to Michael Fallon and Eliza Fallon, who operated a ranch at the site.

The 2020 census counted 3,939 households and 4,196 housing units in Fallon, with a median age of 35.1 years.

Fallon grew from 741 residents in 1900 to 8,606 in both 2000 and 2010 and 9,327 in 2020, an increase of 8.4 percent between the 2010 and 2020 censuses.

Naval Air Station Fallon, built in 1942, lies southeast of the city and has been home since 1996 to the U.S. Navy's Navy Fighter Weapons School, popularly known as TOPGUN.

The Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental thoroughfare, passes through Fallon from east to west along the original Pony Express trail, and today it is U.S. Highway 50, known east of Fallon as The Loneliest Road in America.

Downtown Fallon along Maine Street was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 16, 2019, and the historic Fallon Theater on Maine Street was still in operation as of 2025.

Fallon has a cool arid climate with a record high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit and a record low of minus 27 degrees on February 6, 1989, and it can experience heavy winter fog known as pogonip.

Fallon's schools include Churchill County High School, Churchill County Middle School, and Oasis Academy, a kindergarten-through-12th-grade public charter school established in 2011 that was the first rural public charter high school in Nevada.

Between 1997 and 2003 Fallon experienced an unusually high incidence of childhood leukemia, and the U.S. Senate held a field hearing on the cases during the winter of 2001.