Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Winnemucca, NV

Winnemucca is the only incorporated city in Humboldt County, Nevada, of which it is also the county seat, encompassing about half of the total population of the county, with a population of 8,431 at the 2020 census, up 14 percent from 7,396 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 3,333 households and 3,827 housing units in Winnemucca, and the city's ZIP codes are 89445 and 89446.

The city was named for the 19th-century Chief Winnemucca of the local Northern Paiute tribe, and Winnemucca is translated as the giver, while his daughter Sarah Winnemucca published in 1883 the first autobiography written by a Native American woman, after working as an interpreter, scout and messenger for the United States Army during the Bannock War of 1878.

The Central Pacific Railroad reached Winnemucca on September 16, 1868, and was officially opened on October 1 of that year, and Winnemucca was a stop on the first transcontinental railroad completed the following year.

Basque immigrants worked as sheep-herders in the area starting in the mid-19th century, and Winnemucca hosts an annual Basque Festival, while Basque Americans made up 4.2 percent of the city's population in the 2000 census, the highest percentage of any city in the United States.

On September 19, 1900, Butch Cassidy's gang robbed the First National Bank of Winnemucca of $32,640.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Winnemucca had a vibrant Chinatown of around 400 Chinese in the 1890s, and its Joss House on Baud Street, the last remaining structure associated with Chinatown, was demolished on March 8, 1955, after Sun Yat-sen had visited the community in 1911 on a fund-raising tour for the Xinhai Revolution.

Winnemucca styles itself the City of Paved Streets, according to a billboard along State Route 140, the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway.

Winnemucca straddles the Humboldt River, covers 9.77 square miles at an elevation of 4,295 feet, and has a semi-arid climate, with a highest recorded temperature of 109 degrees Fahrenheit on July 11, 2002, and a lowest recorded temperature of 37 degrees below zero Fahrenheit on December 22, 1990.

Interstate 80 passes through Winnemucca, where it meets U.S. Route 95, and Amtrak's California Zephyr provides daily service in both directions between San Francisco and Chicago from the Winnemucca station at 209 West Railroad Street, while Winnemucca Municipal Airport is about 5 miles southwest of downtown and the city is near the half-way point between Salt Lake City and San Francisco along Interstate 80.