Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Lovelock, NV

Lovelock is the county seat of Pershing County, Nevada, and the county's only incorporated city, with a population of 1,805 at the 2020 census.

The city was incorporated in 1917 and became the county seat in 1919, when Pershing County was organized out of the southern part of Humboldt County.

Lovelock is named for George Lovelock, an English settler who arrived from California in 1866 and bought the squatters' right to 320 acres, along with the oldest water rights on the Humboldt River.

The town grew up around the Central Pacific Railroad, built through the area in August 1868, when Lovelock provided 85 acres for the depot site, which was named 'Lovelock's' after him.

Before the railroad, the area was a midpoint on the Humboldt Trail to California known as the Big Meadows, where an 1849 account described some 250 wagons camped at a time among cattle and mules grazing in grass up to their knees.

Lovelock covers 0.86 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 3,980 feet, and its ZIP code is 89419.

The Pershing County Courthouse, built in 1919, is a round courthouse designed by Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps, modeled on Thomas Jefferson's library at the University of Virginia, with a circular interior hallway and a round courtroom decorated with Corinthian pilasters.

About 20 miles outside town is Lovelock Cave, a horseshoe-shaped cave where Northern Paiute people long ago deposited duck decoys and other artifacts.

Lovelock has a cold desert climate, with a record high of 112 degrees Fahrenheit on July 5, 2007, and a record low of minus 38 degrees on January 25, 1949.

The city's economy remains based on farming, mining, and increasingly tourism, with the Coeur Rochester mine mining silver and gold nearby and diatomite dug at the Colado Mine.