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Nevada ghost towns; Town Other names Image County Established Disestablished Status Notes Alturas: Clark: 1861: In El Dorado Canyon near Techatticup Mine in the Colorado Mining District. Aurora: Mineral: 1860: Neglected site: According to published time-lines, Aurora's population suffered greatly in 1865. Only two mills were still in operation.
Gilbert is a ghost town in Esmeralda County, ... In 1891, McLean started ranching in Nye County, Nevada, near Tonopah and later moved to Esmeralda County. [4]
McLeans is a ghost town located in Esmeralda County, Nevada and former station on the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad east of Blair Junction and west of Millers. [1] The name was changed to Gilbert Junction in 1925. The name McLeans is thought to honor David McLean, who moved to White Pine County, Nevada in the 1870s from Nova
Millers (also spelled Miller's [1]) is a ghost town located in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Deserted today, Millers sprang up as a mining boomtown after the Tonopah boom began. A highway rest stop is located there, resulting in Millers still being listed on many travel maps.
The ghost town of Coaldale Coaldale is a former mining town and true ghost town in Esmeralda County , Nevada , located at the junction of U.S. Route 6 and U.S. Route 95 about 40 miles (64 km) west of Tonopah .
The two ghost towns are about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, 60 miles (97 km) south of Goldfield, and 90 miles (140 km) south of Tonopah. To the west, roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) from Bullfrog, the Funeral and Grapevine Mountains of the Amargosa Range rise between the Amargosa Desert in Nevada and Death Valley in California. [2] [3 ...
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the
Tonopah (/ ˈ t oʊ n ə ˌ p ɑː / TOHN-ə-pah, Shoshoni language: Tonampaa) [4] is an unincorporated town [5] in and the county seat of Nye County, Nevada, United States. [6] Nicknamed the Queen of the Silver Camps for its mining-rich history, [1] it is now primarily a tourism-based resort city, notable for attractions like the Mizpah Hotel and the Clown Motel.