Rhyolite, Nevada
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 edge of Death Valley. The town began in early 1905...
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Alkali Hot Springs
GPS: 37.82576579999999,-117.33758369999998 Alkali Hot Spring originally rose from several seeps, but in the early 19th century, Combination Mines Co. drove a 12-m adit to concentrate flow into a single channel. The water was...
Dixie Valley, Nevada
GPS: 39.6876953,-118.08068660000004 Dixie Valley, Nevada, was a small ranching town in Churchill County, Nevada until the area was acquired in 1995 by the US Navy for the Fallon Range Training Complex (FRTC). The town...
Bullfrog, Nevada
GPS: 36.9588324,-116.83283949999998 Bullfrog is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located at the north end of the Amargosa Desert about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of...
Berlin Historic District (Berlin, Nevada)
GPS: 38.8719809,-117.59360700000002 The Berlin Historic District encompasses the ghost town of Berlin in Nye County, Nevada. The town was established in 1897 as part of the Union Mining District after the opening of the...
Belmont, Nevada
GPS: 38.5964626,-116.87598830000002 Belmont was established following a silver strike in 1865. Other minerals, such as copper lead and antimony, were also mined in addition to the silver. The boom brought settlers in and the...
Palmetto, Nevada
GPS: 37.4957642,-117.66286639999998 Palmetto, Nevada is a ghost town in Esmeralda County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Palmetto was founded and established in 1866, the time when silver was found. Although the town was...
Miller’s, Nevada
GPS: 38.13667,-117.45667000000003 Miller’s came to life as a result of the furor in Tonopah. In 1901 the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad was constructed and by 1904 Miller’s was founded as a station and watering...
Goldfield, Nevada
GPS: 37.7084481,-117.2357131 Goldfield is an unincorporated community and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States. It is a census-designated place (CDP), with a resident population of 268 at the 2010 census,[1]...
Gold Point, Nevada
The area that would become Gold Point was first settled by ranchers and a few miners during the 1880s. The small camp of Lime Point was formed a few hundred yards west of the...
