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The Carson River is a northwestern Nevada river that empties into the Carson Sink, an endorheic basin.The main stem of the river is 131 miles (211 km) long [4] although the addition of the East Fork makes the total length 205 miles (330 km), traversing five counties: Alpine County in California and Douglas, Storey, Lyon, and Churchill Counties in Nevada, as well as the Consolidated ...
Designated NHL. November 5, 1961 [5] Fort Churchill State Historic Park is a state park of Nevada, United States, preserving the remains of a United States Army fort and a way station on the Pony Express and Central Overland Routes dating back to the 1860s. The site is one end of the historic Fort Churchill and Sand Springs Toll Road.
Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, [3] is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. [4] As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the 6th most populous city in the state. The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson ...
39°11′06″N 119°42′48″W / 39.18500°N 119.71333°W / 39.18500; -119.71333 [1] Built. 1860. Nevada Historical Marker. Reference no. 1 [2] Empire and Carson River mills is an historic area in Carson City, Nevada. The mills were established along the Carson River near Empire, [1] now part of Carson City (not to be confused ...
In 1866 and 1870 devastating "Great Fires" in Dayton greatly reduced the size of the town. The 1869 opening of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad shifted ore processing upstream to the Carson River Canyon, but Dayton continued to serve as a lesser center of commerce and government. Nonetheless, in the 1870s it was a much quieter, less prosperous ...
Website. Official website. Dayton State Park is a 152-acre (62 ha) public recreation area in the town of Dayton, Nevada, USA. The state park preserves the site of the Rock Point Stamp Mill, which was built in 1861 to process silver ore mined from the Comstock Lode. [3]
20,300 cu ft/s (570 m 3 /s) The East Fork Carson River is the largest tributary of the Carson River, flowing through California and Nevada in the western United States. The north-flowing river is 61 miles (98 km) long [3] and drains a mostly rural, mountainous watershed of 392 square miles (1,020 km 2). [3]
75001104 [1] Added to NRHP. March 19, 1975. Stillwater Marsh is an archaeology locality in the Carson Sink in western Nevada discovered when heavy flooding in the 1980s unearthed many human remains. The great diversity in plant life and altitudinally-determined microenvironments that surrounded the marsh helped to make it a popular place to ...