Churchill County, Nevada
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- Bernice — Ghost Town · Churchill County, NV
Churchill County silver camp in the Bernice / Clan Alpine country northeast of Dixie Valley, briefly called Casket or Caskett, with a post office in the earl…
- Carson Lake Wildlife Management Area — Wildlife · Churchill County, NV
NDOW-managed 30,040-acre wetland complex ~8 miles southeast of Fallon at the natural terminus of the Carson River — a remnant of prehistoric Lake Lahontan di…
- Carson Sink — Natural · Churchill County, NV
Vast alkali basin and terminal playa of the Carson River system—remnant of pluvial Lake Lahontan. White flats, mirages, and open desert sky dominate; seasona…
- Chalk Mountain — Geology · Churchill County, NV
Pale, chalky summit in the West Gate country east of Fairview Peak—part of the light-toned carbonate and altered rock package that colors this stretch of US-…
- Clan Alpine — Ghost Town · Churchill County, NV
1864 silver mining camp on the east flank of the Clan Alpine Mountains (Cherry Creek drainage), with a short-lived stamp mill at the canyon base. Ore proved …
- Cold Springs Pony Express Station — Historic · Churchill County, NV
National Register ruins of an 1860–61 Pony Express station on Loneliest Road (US-50), with one of the best-preserved stone station shells on the Nevada segme…
- Dake Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Churchill County, NV
A little-documented remote soak reported on the northern Churchill–Pershing fringe of the Black Rock country, with a crude rock-and-dirt pool. Roads are roug…
- Eightmile Flat — Natural · Churchill County, NV
A broad alkaline playa and salt-flat mosaic in the Salt Wells Basin south of Fallon, gazetted as Eightmile Flat between the Bunejug Mountains and the Sand Mo…
- Fairview — Ghost Town · Churchill County, NV
Silver boom town east of Fallon that rose after 1905 discoveries, briefly supporting newspapers, hotels, and a large camp population before fading by World W…
- Fairview Peak Earthquake Faults — Geology · Churchill County, NV
Public BLM interpretive pullout and graded Earthquake Fault Road south of US-50 showcasing surface rupture from the December 16, 1954 Fairview Peak (M~7.1) a…
- Forty Mile Desert — Natural · Churchill County, NV
Alkali plain between the Humboldt Sink and the Carson/Truckee river corridors—the most dreaded dry stretch of the California Emigrant Trail. Mid-1800s partie…
- Fourmile Flat — Natural · Churchill County, NV
Broad alkali playa in the Salt Wells Basin south of US-50, sister landscape to nearby Eightmile Flat but a distinct GNIS flat centered west of Sand Mountain.…
- Grimes Point Petroglyphs — Petroglyph · Churchill County, NV
BLM site with 150+ basalt boulders carved by Great Basin peoples up to 8,000 years ago. The desert varnish on these images has been extensively studied and d…
- Jessup — Ghost Town · Churchill County, NV
1908 gold–silver boom camp in a volcanic caldera a few miles north of I-80 between Fernley and Lovelock (Exit 78 still signed Jessup). Peak population near 3…
- Job Peak — Natural · Churchill County, NV
Highest summit of the Stillwater Range (~8,780 ft), rising more than 5,000 feet above Dixie Valley. A long Class-2 desert ridge walk and one of west-central …
- Lovelock Cave Historic Site — Historic · Churchill County, NV
BLM-managed rock shelter on the edge of the Humboldt Sink, famed as the “Cradle of Great Basin Archaeology.” Guano miners and later UC Berkeley and other tea…
- Middlegate Station — Historic · Churchill County, NV
Living roadhouse on US-50 (the Loneliest Road) at historic Middlegate, roughly 45–50 miles east of Fallon. Site sits on a corridor used since Pony Express / …
- Mount Augusta — Natural · Churchill County, NV
High summit of the Clan Alpine Mountains in eastern Churchill County, an official Board on Geographic Names peak rising above remote BLM basin-and-range coun…
- Ragtown — Historic · Churchill County, NV
Abandoned 1854 Carson River trading post and emigrant waystation west of Fallon, nicknamed for clothes cast off by desert-crossing travelers. Nevada State Hi…
- Sand Mountain — Booming Dune — Natural · Churchill County, NV
Sand Mountain is a lone ~600-foot dune of Lake Lahontan beach sand rising from the flats southeast of Fallon. On still dry days avalanching sand can boom or …
- Sand Springs Pony Express Station — Historic · Churchill County, NV
Stabilized 1860 Pony Express / Overland Stage station ruins on the approach to Sand Mountain Recreation Area. Buried by dunes and rediscovered in 1976, the m…
- Soda Lake — Geology · Churchill County, NV
Young basalt maar (and sister Little Soda Lake) on the Carson Sink floor NW of Fallon — one of Nevada's clearest Holocene phreatomagmatic craters. USGS class…
- Stillwater NWR — Wildlife · Churchill County, NV
Where the Carson River meets the desert — a vast wetland hosting millions of migratory birds. Peak fall migration brings dense flocks of white-faced ibis, Am…
- Upsal Hogback — Geology · Churchill County, NV
Young phreatomagmatic tuff cone and basalt ridge north of Fallon in the Lahontan Valley, part of the same late Quaternary volcanic family as Soda Lakes. Geol…
- Wonder — Ghost Town · Churchill County, NV
A 1906 gold-silver boom that peaked at 600 people and faded by 1919 when the mill closed. Collapsed wooden buildings and foundations melt into sagebrush 14 m…