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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".
Tolicha Peak and Point Bravo are the sites of for electronic combat ranges, and the Mercury Valley is the eponym for a Cold War camp that became Mercury, Nevada. The Tonopah Test Range , within the boundaries of the NTTR (e.g., "Nellis Range 75" [ 5 ] ) includes Antelope Lake , Radar Hill, and the "Cactus, Antelope, and Silverbow Springs ".
Grantsville is a former town in Nye County, Nevada. [2] The camp was started in 1863 [3] or 1864, [4] along with the nearby Union and North Union mining districts. [4] The camp was named by Unionists to honor Ulysses S. Grant. [4] In 1864, miners in the district successfully petitioned to have Nye County separated from Esmeralda County, Nevada. [3]
Juniper Springs (also called Juniper) is a former mining camp in Nye County, Nevada, that was inhabited in 1910. The mining camp was founded in the summer of 1910 on the location where N. E. Dyer had found ore. The camp was founded close to the competing camp Athens. Juniper Springs was owned by Dyer, who gave away free lots.
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 ...
Availability of water was a problem for the bustling camp. Water was retrieved from a spring four miles away, packed in canvas bags and hauled back to town by donkeys. The camp started to decline after 1893. The settlement revived in 1898 when new investors bought the two largest mines in the district, the Johnnie and the Congress mines.
Pioneer is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Beginning as a mining camp near the Mayflower and other gold mines in northern Bullfrog Hills, it became a formal town in 1908 and flourished briefly until fire destroyed much of its business district in 1909 and litigation delayed mining. Population peaked at an estimated ...
Mercury is a closed village in Nye County, Nevada, United States, [3] 5 miles (8.0 km) north of U.S. Route 95 at a point 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Las Vegas.It is situated within the Nevada National Security Site and was constructed by the Atomic Energy Commission to house and service the staff of the test site.