Eureka County, Nevada

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• Alpha — Ghost Town · Eureka County, NV

  Short-lived Eureka & Palisade Railroad way town and mining camp that peaked about 1874–75 with a hotel and saloons. After the narrow-gauge line pushed throug…

• Beowawe — Historic · Eureka County, NV

  1868 Central Pacific railroad town in northern Eureka County (Paiute name for the valley ‘gate’). Gravelly Ford and the Maiden’s Grave link it to the Califor…

• Diamond City — Ghost Town · Eureka County, NV

  1860s–1880s silver camp on the west side of the Diamond Mountains with a Champion Mining Co. smelter (1873), stone cabin, and surviving charcoal kiln that fu…

• Diamond Peak — Natural · Eureka County, NV

  High summit of the Diamond Mountains on the Eureka–White Pine skyline northeast of Eureka (~10,600+ ft class). A thin-county peakbagging and big-view objecti…

• Eureka — Historic · Eureka County, NV

  One of Nevada's best-preserved mining boomtowns on US-50. Silver-lead discovery (1864) made Eureka second only to the Comstock; the Eureka Historic District …

• Mineral Hill — Ghost Town · Eureka County, NV

  Silver-lead camp discovered in 1869 on the east flank of the Mineral Hill range; boom population near 450–500 with a fifteen-stamp mill that produced more th…

• Palisade — Ghost Town · Eureka County, NV

  A railroad town that became famous for a long-running practical joke — locals staged fake gunfights and holdups whenever the train arrived, convincing hundre…

• Ruby Hill — Ghost Town · Eureka County, NV

  Major 1870s mining suburb of Eureka at the Richmond and Eureka Consolidated mines; peaked near 2,500 residents with schools, churches, newspapers, and a shor…

• Vanderbilt — Ghost Town · Eureka County, NV

  Silver-lead camp south of Eureka established after 1869–70 discoveries; briefly ~150 people with stores and a stamp mill before Eureka overshadowed it. Reviv…