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Panamint City is a ghost town in the Panamint Range, near Death Valley, in Inyo County, California, US. It is also known by the official Board of Geographic Names as Panamint. [2] Panamint was a boom town founded after silver and copper were found there in 1872. [3] By 1874, the town had a population of about 2,000. [3]
The Panamint Mining District is on the western side of the Panamint Range. [7] Panamint City (est. 1873) was a mining town in the district, formerly in the central section of the range. [7] The historic mining community of Ballarat (est. 1890s), also in the district, is now a ghost town. [7]
The ghost town of Ballarat is located in the Panamint Valley about three miles east of Trona Road, near Happy Canyon. [1] The Panamint Springs Resort, on Highway 190 west of Panamint Valley Road near Rainbow Canyon, provides the only lodging, dining, and gas in the area. [2] The former Epsom Salts Monorail crossed the valley on a wooden trestle.
Panamint City, a ghost town in California known for its past mining activity; Panamint Range, a mountain range in the northeastern part of Mojave Desert, California; Panamint Springs, an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California; Panamint Valley, a California valley at the northeastern part of Mojave Desert
Lake Panamint (also known as Lake Gale [2]) is a former lake that occupied Panamint Valley in California during the Pleistocene. It was formed mainly by water overflowing through the Owens River and which passed through Lake Searles into the Panamint Valley.
The Panamint Valley basin runs between the Panamint Range to the east and Argus and Slate ranges to the west for 65 miles (105 km). It has a width of about 10 miles (16 km). It is an endorheic basin that can form a lake after heavy rain. Airspace above the valley is part of the Panamint Military Operating Area, restricted to US military use.
Sentinel Peak is a 9,634-foot-elevation (2,936-meter) summit in Inyo County, California, United States.It is located near Panamint City, California.Sentinel Peak is the sixth-highest mountain of the Panamint Range, [1] and it is set within Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert.
The difference between the two points is about 14,700 feet (4,500 m). They are not visible from each other, but both can be observed from the Panamint Range on the west side of Death Valley, above the Panamint Valley. Thus, Inyo County has the greatest elevation difference among all of the counties and county-equivalents in the contiguous ...