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Nye County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,591. [2] Its county seat is Tonopah. [3] At 18,159 square miles (47,030 km 2), Nye is Nevada's largest county by area and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States, behind San Bernardino County of California and Coconino County of ...
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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.
Contents: List of Registered Historic Places in Nye County, Nevada, USA: The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [1]
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Some of the buildings still standing include the original Nye County Courthouse, the Cosmopolitan Saloon, the Monitor-Belmont Mill, and the combination mill.Currently, the old Combination Mine and Mill office and Belmont Courier Newspaper office and associated buildings are under restoration and preservation, known as the Philadelphia House, a reference to the name of the lodging house in the ...
Nye: federal (Bureau of Land Management) 400-acre (160 ha) maar thought to have been formed by a past volcanic explosion. Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge: 1972: Elko: federal One of the largest and finest natural wetlands in Nevada.
The community is named after the Amargosa River which flows through the valley from its origination in Nevada to its terminus in Death Valley, California.Like most desert rivers, the 200-mile (320 km) long Amargosa flows on the surface only when rare rainfalls flood the desert washes, except for a 20-mile (32 km) segment near Shoshone, California, where the river flows perennially.