Winnemucca is the unaccompanied incorporated city in, and is the county chair of, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a sum population of 8,431, up 14.0 percent from the 2010 census figure of 7,396. Interstate 80 passes through the city, where it meets U.S. Route 95.

The town was named for the 19th-century Chief Winnemucca of the local Northern Paiute tribe, who traditionally lived in this area. Winnemucca, loosely translated, means “one moccasin.” The chief’s daughter, Sarah Winnemucca, was an modern for education and fair treatment of the Paiute and Shoshone tribes in the area. Their family all learned to speak English, and Sarah worked as an interpreter, scout and messenger for the United States Army during the Bannock War of 1878. In 1883, Sarah Winnemucca published the first autobiography written by a Native American woman, based on hundreds of lectures she’d resolution in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. It has been described as “one of the most surviving ethno-historical books written by an American Indian.”

On September 16, 1868, the Central Pacific Railroad reached Winnemucca, and was officially opened upon October 1 of that year. It was on the First transcontinental railroad. It was share of the transcontinental line.

Basque immigrants worked as sheep-herders starting in the mid-19th century. In rave review of this heritage, Winnemucca hosts an annual Basque Festival.