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The camp was first called Gold Circle, but when the post office was established in 1907, officials decided that Nevada had too many towns with "gold" in their names, and the town was renamed Midas. [3] Millers: Esmeralda: Miriam: Churchill: Non-agency station of the SPRR [9] Mountain City: Elko: 1870: Semi-abandoned town: Nevada City: Churchill ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
A former railroad town Dunbar, Ak (site) Wikimapia [14] Dyea: Municipality of Skagway Borough: Neglected Known for containing "The Slide", a cemetery in which almost everyone interred died in the same avalanche on April 3, 1898. [15] Flat: Flat City Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area `1909 2004 A gold rush town that never recovered from a large fire in ...
St. Thomas, Nevada is a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, near where the Muddy River flows into the Colorado River. St. Thomas was purchased by the US Federal Government and abandoned as the waters of Lake Mead submerged the town in the 1930s. However, as the level of Lake Mead dropped in the 2000s, the ruins of the town ...
Unclaimed property laws in the United States provide for two reporting periods each year whereby unclaimed bank accounts, stocks, insurance proceeds, utility deposits, un-cashed checks and other forms of "personal property" are reported first to the individual state's Unclaimed Property Office, then published in a local newspaper and then ...
This category is for settlement that have been abandoned, for human or natural reasons. Resettlement may have occurred on or near to the original site. For convenience, all former populated places in Alaska (other than ghost towns) should be included in this category.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Alaska on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [ 2 ] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [ 3 ]
Lida, Nevada is a small ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada, near the border with California. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. [1] It is located on State Route 266, north of Magruder Mountain. The first white settlers at Lida arrived in 1867. [2] [3] The town was named for the wife of prospector David Buel of nearby Austin. [2]