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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]
Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [ 1 ] There are 18 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmarks .
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.
Map: Stovepipe Wells, California 7.5-minute quadrangle, US Geological Survey, 1988. National Geographic Names Database, US Geological Survey, 1995. California Air Resources Board web site. Richard E. Lingenfelter. (1988) Death Valley and the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion: University of California Press. p. 290, p. 475.
The Hike: Panamint City Ghost Town. Panamint City was a mining town founded by outlaws in 1873 that quickly garnered a rough reputation, but it was leveled a few years later in a flash flood. Hike ...
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 ...
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