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Panaca is an unincorporated town [3] in eastern Lincoln County, Nevada, United States, on State Route 319, about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) east of U.S. Route 93, near the border with Utah. Its elevation is 4,729 feet (1,441 meters) above sea level.
The Panaca Summit Archeological District, near Panaca, Nevada is a 7,040-acre (2,850 ha) area that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It included 74 contributing sites. [1] Archeological sites are listed on the National Register for their potential to provide important information in the future.
This list of cemeteries in Nevada includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Contents: List of Registered Historic Places in Lincoln 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".
A majority of Meadow Valley (which lies along U.S. Route 93 from the towns of Caliente to Panaca) was covered by a freshwater lake nearly 5 million years ago during the Pliocene Era. The richly colored canyons of Cathedral Gorge (called the Panaca Formation) are remnants of this ancient lakebed. Over centuries, the lake began to gradually drain.
The camp was first called Gold Circle, but when the post office was established in 1907, officials decided that Nevada had too many towns with "gold" in their names, and the town was renamed Midas. [3] Millers: Esmeralda: Miriam: Churchill: Non-agency station of the SPRR [9] Mountain City: Elko: 1870: Semi-abandoned town: Nevada City: Churchill ...
A federal jury in Nevada has awarded more than $34 million to a woman who was arrested at age 18, wrongly convicted twice, and served nearly 16 years in a Nevada state prison for a 2001 killing ...
The Surveyors (Nevada) Lander [9] 177: Desert Well Station (Overland Mail and Stage Station) Lyon [8] 178: Hazen: Churchill [11] 179: First Air Flights in Nevada: Carson City [2] 180: The Warm Springs Hotel: Carson City [2] 181: The Washo Indians: Carson City [2] 182: Panaca Ward Chapel: Lincoln: Oldest building in Lincoln County, built in 1867 ...