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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]
Nevada: Mormon Island: Sacramento 1848 1856 Submerged Mountain House ... List of ghost towns in California. 3 languages ...
Bodie (/ ˈ b oʊ d iː / BOH-dee) is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States.It is about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe, and 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, [6] at an elevation of 8,379 feet (2554 m). [1]
The Esmeralda vein, the discovery outcrop of the Aurora Mining District Aurora after 1910, when the town was first connected to electrical power. Aurora is a ghost town in Mineral County in the west central part of the US state of Nevada, approximately 22 mi (35 km) southwest of the town of Hawthorne, three miles from the California border.
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.
White Mountain City (WMC) is a ghost town at the mouth of Wyman Canyon in Deep Springs Valley in Inyo County, California. The site is on a dirt road east of CA-168 near the Nevada border. Today, White Mountain City is marked by some ruins.
Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States.Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and was later converted into a county park named Calico Ghost Town.
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