Ghost Towns, 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…
- American Flat — Ghost Town · Storey County, NV
Comstock-era mill flat and short-lived townsite just SW of Gold Hill / Virginia City where large reduction mills processed ore from the lode. The historic po…
- Atlanta — Ghost Town · Lincoln County, NV
Silver camp in the Atlanta district of the Wilson Creek Range country, east of the Pioche–Delamar mineral belt. A thin eastern Nevada ghost for a named camp …
- Aurora — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Nevada's most substantial but least-visited ghost town ruins. Produced $30M in silver-gold, was claimed simultaneously by both California and Nevada, and Mar…
- Aurum — Ghost Town · White Pine County, NV
Aurum is a little-visited White Pine County mining camp with stone foundations and scattered relics in high desert hills. Boom-and-bust cycles left little st…
- Bellehelen — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Early 1900s silver-lead camp in the Kawich Range country east of Tonopah approaches. A short boom left mill and camp scatter on remote district roads—classic…
- Belleville — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
1873–1890s mill town built by the Northern Belle Mining Company to process Candelaria silver ore. Twin 20-stamp mills (Lower 1875, Upper 1876), newspaper, an…
- Belmont — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Remarkably intact silver camp in Monitor Valley. The 1876 Nye County Courthouse still stands — roofless but solid — alongside mill ruins, a saloon foundation…
- Berlin Ghost Town — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Part of Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park with 30 original structures including a mill, assay office, and miners cabins. A separate fossil shelter nearby protect…
- Berlin Mill (separate ruins) — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
The Berlin stamp mill stands with the preserved Berlin townsite inside Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park—one of Nevada’s most intact industrial mining scenes. Mu…
- 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…
- Betty O'Neal — Ghost Town · Lander County, NV
Long-lived silver camp in the Lewis District south of Battle Mountain. After 1880s disasters, a major 1920s revival under Noble Getchell built a large flotat…
- Blair — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Short-lived Silver Peak district boomtown built 1906 when the Pittsburg-Silver Peak Gold Mining Company laid out a company town three miles north of Silver P…
- Bonnie Claire — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad siding turned supply town for Death Valley mines. Crumbling adobe foundations, a rusted water tank, and old rail grade remnant…
- Bovard — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Short-lived 1908 silver camp in the Gabbs Valley Range founded by Rawhide prospectors after Al Bovard’s discovery. A rival tent town (Lorena) briefly compete…
- Bristol Well — Ghost Town · Lincoln County, NV
National Register silver-lead-copper milling townsite northwest of Pioche, also known as National City / Bristol City / Tempest. Boom-era charcoal kilns, sto…
- Broken Hills — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Small silver camp in the Mineral County hills with stone foundations and scattered ruins in a barren landscape. Documented by desert4wd.com with 15 site photos.
- Bullfrog — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
The discovery site of the Bullfrog Mining District in 1904, just a mile from Rhyolite. The original Bullfrog townsite had hotels, saloons, and a post office …
- Cambridge — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
East Walker River mill camp and settlement that supported the Wilson–Cambridge mining district below Pine Grove. Stone cabin, dugouts, mill foundations, and …
- Candelaria — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Silver mining camp producing over $5M in the 1880s in the Monte Cristo Range. Stone ruins line a barren hillside and a historic cemetery has legible headston…
- Carrara — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
A marble quarry town 9 miles south of Beatty — Nevada's desert version of its Italian namesake. The American Carrara Marble Company laid out the townsite in …
- Cherry Creek — Ghost Town · White Pine County, NV
An 1870s silver camp at the base of the Cherry Creek Mountains. Stone ruins and an old jail remain. The drive through the valley is beautiful and the site is…
- 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 …
- Cloverdale — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Ranch-and-stage settlement in Cloverdale Valley west of the Toiyabe approaches that also supported nearby mining traffic. Thin cottonwood-and-foundation land…
- Coaldale — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Abandoned mid-century highway stop at the junction of US-6 and US-95 in the Tonopah Basin — a cluster of empty motel, café, and gas-station shells left after…
- Cobre — Ghost Town · Elko County, NV
Cobre was a short-lived railroad and copper-shipping town near the Nevada–Utah line in Elko County. A handful of structures and rail-era relics sit in open d…
- Columbus — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Remote borax and silver camp in the Candelaria Hills with 13 documented photo locations on desert4wd.com. Stone foundations, mill ruins, and isolated desert …
- Como — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
1860s gold camp in the Pine Nut Mountains southeast of Dayton—briefly a booming Palmyra Mining District town with hotels, mills, a newspaper (the Como Sentin…
- Cornucopia — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Extremely remote gold camp in the Santa Rosa Range near the Oregon border. Almost never visited. Stone ruins of several buildings survive in an alpine settin…
- Cortez — Ghost Town · Lander County, NV
1860s silver camp on the east side of the Cortez Mountains, later absorbed into one of Nevada’s great modern gold districts. Historic townsite buildings and …
- Daveytown — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Abandoned gold camp on the east flank of the Slumbering Hills in Humboldt County, about twenty-four miles north-northwest of Winnemucca. It took its name fro…
- Delamar — Ghost Town · Lincoln County, NV
Called "The Widowmaker" — dry milling of silica gold ore killed over 1,000 miners from silicosis. Remote stone walls, a large cemetery, and mill foundation s…
- Delano — Ghost Town · Elko County, NV
Gold-mining district center in far northeastern Elko County, about thirty-six miles north of Montello near the Idaho line. Production ran intermittently from…
- 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…
- Downeyville — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Short-lived mining camp in the Paradise Peak / Downeyville district near the Nye–Churchill line west of Ione country. Another thin central Nevada ghost for d…
- Dun Glen — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
1860s silver and copper camp in the Humboldt Range with stone walls, mill ruins, and a picturesque cemetery. Was briefly the county seat. One of the Humboldt…
- Ellsworth — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Tiny silver camp in the Nye County hills with scattered stone foundations and mine dumps across a quiet desert hillside. One of Nevada's more obscure and sel…
- 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…
- Farrell — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
Seven Troughs Range gold camp at the north end of the district (Stonehouse Canyon area), with post office 1907–1911. The 1912 district flood and later downtu…
- Flanigan — Ghost Town · Washoe County, NV
Former railroad crossroads settlement in Honey Lake Valley, Washoe County, a few miles east of the California line. Once a section stop with a store and dwel…
- Gilbert — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Remote 1920s gold camp in the Monte Cristo Range country of Esmeralda County. Short-lived boom left scattered ruins and diggings on high desert public land n…
- Gold Butte Townsite — Ghost Town · Clark County, NV
Abandoned mining camp that gave its name to the surrounding Gold Butte country, now inside Gold Butte National Monument. Sparse ruins and desert roads mark t…
- Gold Center — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Short-lived supply and milling town in the Bullfrog Mining District, founded in December 1904 south of Beatty and Rhyolite. It briefly supported a post offic…
- Gold Hill (Comstock) — Ghost Town · Storey County, NV
Gold Hill sits on the Comstock Lode just south of Virginia City, a streetscape of historic homes, mine works, and highway traffic through a still-lived-in mi…
- Gold Point (Hornsilver) — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Originally called Lime Point, then Hornsilver for its high-grade silver ore. Renamed Gold Point in the 1930s when gold became dominant. One of the best-prese…
- Goldfield — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Nevada's largest city in 1907 with 30,000 residents and $86M in gold. Grand crumbling buildings still line Main Street. Jack Johnson won his heavyweight titl…
- Goodsprings — Ghost Town · Clark County, NV
Southern Nevada's most accessible ghost town, booming on lead, zinc, and gold from the 1890s through WWII. The Pioneer Club saloon still operates. Clark Gabl…
- Grantsville — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Union Canyon silver camp west of Ione, named for Ulysses S. Grant after 1863 discoveries and revived after 1877 with a large stamp mill. Schoolhouse, mill ru…
- Hamilton (separate ridge ruins) — Ghost Town · White Pine County, NV
Treasure Hill and the ridge ruins above Hamilton hold mill foundations, stone walls, and diggings from White Pine’s 1868–70s silver boom—distinct from the ma…
- Hamilton / Treasure City — Ghost Town · White Pine County, NV
Two adjacent silver boomtowns atop an 8,000-ft ridge that held 15,000 people in 1869. Courthouse ruins, stone walls, and a dramatic mountain setting make thi…
- Hardin City — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Short-lived Black Rock Desert silver-rush camp on the west slope of the Black Rock Range (late 1850s–1860s), named for James Allen Hardin’s rumored silver fi…
- Humboldt City — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
Early silver camp in Humboldt Canyon on the west flank of the Humboldt Range, ~10 mi SW of Mill City and a few miles SE of I-80. Settled in the early 1860s w…
- Illipah — Ghost Town · White Pine County, NV
Illipah is a sparse White Pine County mining locale along US-50 east of Eureka. Scattered foundations and diggings sit in high cold-desert sage country with …
- Ione — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Quiet semi-inhabited silver camp in the Shoshone Mountains with intact 19th-century stone and adobe buildings including a beautiful old stone church. Canyon …
- Jackrabbit — Ghost Town · Lincoln County, NV
Silver camp on the east side of the Bristol Range, first called Royal City (1876) and later Jackrabbit. A store, saloon, boarding house, and brief post offic…
- Jarbidge — Ghost Town · Elko County, NV
Nevada's most remote town and site of the last stagecoach robbery in US history (1916). About five people still live here. Jarbidge Wilderness has deep grani…
- 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…
- Johnnie — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Gold camp and residual populated place in the Johnnie Mining District on the west slope of the Spring Mountains foothills, roughly fifteen miles north of Pah…
- Johntown — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
Gold Canyon’s first permanent mining camp (mid-1850s), established by “Old Virginny” Finney and placer miners years before the 1859 Comstock Lode discovery a…
- Jungo — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Railroad- and highway-era stop on Humboldt County Route 55 (former State Route 49) between Winnemucca and Sulphur. The place once held a hotel, store, fillin…
- Kennedy — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
1890s gold camp on the east flank of the East Range (Granite Mountain) that briefly boomed after Charles E. Kennedy’s Imperial Mine discovery — stamp mill, c…
- Lane City — Ghost Town · White Pine County, NV
Early White Pine mining camp (originally Mineral City era roots) a few miles northwest of Ely along the US-50/93 corridor. Thin standing remains include the …
- Lida — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Tiny remote silver camp in the Palmetto Mountains near the California border. Stone foundations and prospect pits remain in extraordinary isolation with pano…
- Logandale / St. Joseph — Ghost Town · Clark County, NV
First established as a Mormon fort in 1865 on the Muddy River. The Huntsman Adobe (c.1888) is the oldest building in Moapa Valley. The St. Joseph Cemetery ho…
- Lucky Boy — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Silver-lead camp on the east flank of the Wassuk Range above Hawthorne, born from a 1906 road-crew ore discovery and rushed in 1909. Population briefly near …
- Ludwig — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
Singatse Range copper camp (originally Morningstar) rebuilt by the Nevada-Douglas Copper Company and terminus of the Nevada Copper Belt Railroad after 1911. …
- Manhattan — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
A gold camp that refused to die — boomed in 1905, surged again in the 1930s with placer gold dredging. A small population still lives here. Old dredge tailin…
- Marietta — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
A borax and salt mining camp in the Mineral County desert with extensive ruins documented in 35 desert4wd.com photos. Nearby salt marsh makes for an unusual …
- McGill — Ghost Town · White Pine County, NV
Kennecott Copper company town built to house smelter workers for the Ruth open-pit mine. The massive smelter stack still dominates the skyline. Company store…
- Metropolis — Ghost Town · Elko County, NV
Nevada's only major non-mining ghost town — an ambitious 1910 irrigation farming utopia that collapsed from water rights lawsuits, jackrabbit invasions, and …
- Metropolis School Ruins — Ghost Town · Elko County, NV
Metropolis was a failed early-1900s farming colony north of Wells; the freestanding stone arch of Lincoln School is the iconic remnant. Open ranch country su…
- Midas — Ghost Town · Elko County, NV
Remote northern Nevada gold town in the Snowstorm Mountains. A false-front saloon and several original buildings still stand. Exceptionally isolated and rare…
- Millers — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Tonopah-era railroad and milling camp on the Tonopah & Goldfield line (founded 1904; named for Charles R. Miller). Hosted a 100-stamp cyanide mill and T&G sh…
- 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…
- National (Buckskin) — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Extremely remote gold-silver camp in the Santa Rosa Range. Remarkable stone buildings and a partially intact mill survive at high elevation. One of Nevada's …
- Nelson (Eldorado Canyon) — Ghost Town · Clark County, NV
Nelson in Eldorado Canyon is a photogenic cluster of mining ruins, junked cars, and desert mountains between Boulder City and the Colorado River. Techatticup…
- Oreana — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
Historic milling settlement (1860s–1880s) on the Humboldt River corridor that processed ore from the Arabia and Trinity districts. Home of the Montezuma Smel…
- Osceola — Ghost Town · White Pine County, NV
Long-worked eastern Nevada placer gold camp (1872–mid-20th century) on the west slope of the Snake Range. A 12-mile gold-bearing vein discovery sparked hydra…
- 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…
- Palmetto — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Short-lived silver camp in the Palmetto Mountains of Esmeralda County, reworked in later rushes and now reduced to stone walls and prospect pits on an open r…
- Paradise Valley — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
A beautiful agricultural and ranching town in a lush valley at the base of the Santa Rosa Range. Stone and brick buildings line the main street. The Paradise…
- Pine Grove — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
Gold and silver mining camp in the Sweetwater Mountains near the California border with 16 documented photo locations on desert4wd.com. The forested mountain…
- Pioche — Ghost Town · Lincoln County, NV
One of Nevada's most violent early mining camps — by 1872 the Boot Hill cemetery had 75 graves but no one had died of natural causes. The Million Dollar Cour…
- Poeville — Ghost Town · Washoe County, NV
Poeville (also called Poe City) was a 1860s–70s mining camp on the Peavine Mountain side above Reno/Stead. Little more than foundations and mining scars rema…
- Potosi — Ghost Town · Clark County, NV
Potosi Camp on the flanks of Mount Potosi is among southern Nevada’s earliest lode sites, worked for lead in the 1850s before later silver and zinc eras. Sca…
- Ramsey — Ghost Town · Lyon County, NV
1906 gold-boom camp in the Virginia Range east of the Comstock, laid out after the Ramsey brothers’ strike and briefly home to saloons, hotels, a newspaper, …
- Ravenswood — Ghost Town · Lander County, NV
Ravenswood is a remote Lander County silver camp reduced to stone ruins on quiet hills well off the tourist track. Expect rough dirt, no services, and total …
- Rawhide — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Gold rush town that exploded to 10,000 people in 1907-08 then vanished. Tex Rickard ran a saloon here before building Madison Square Garden. Very little rema…
- Reveille — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Reveille was a remote 1860s silver camp in the Reveille Range, now reduced to stone ruins and foundations in open central Nevada country. Visitation is near …
- Rhyolite — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
One of the West's most photogenic ghost towns — ballooned to 10,000 residents during the 1905 Death Valley gold rush then collapsed just as fast. The three-s…
- Rochester — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
Silver camp in the Humboldt Range with an intact false-front store, mill ruins, and dozens of cabin foundations spread across a steep canyon. One of northern…
- 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…
- Saint Thomas — Ghost Town · Clark County, NV
Mormon settlement founded in the 1860s at the Muddy–Virgin confluence, later a thriving Moapa Valley town abandoned in the 1930s as Lake Mead rose behind Hoo…
- Scossa — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
Small Pershing County mining townsite, now a ghost town, in desert ranges west of the Humboldt River corridor. Remains of a short-lived camp are sparse. It i…
- Seven Troughs — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
Gold rush camp that erupted in 1907, producing over $2M before collapsing by 1912. Extensive stone ruins, mill foundation, and historic cemetery survive in d…
- Shafter — Ghost Town · Elko County, NV
Railroad ghost town northeast of Wells where the Nevada Northern met the Western Pacific Feather River Route. Founded 1906 as Bews, renamed Shafter in 1907 f…
- Sodaville — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
US-95-side freight and railroad hub that served Candelaria, Tonopah, and Goldfield traffic from the soda-spring oasis once known as Soda Springs. Today a thi…
- Star City — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
Silver boom camp in the Humboldt Range that peaked in the mid-1860s with mills and roughly a thousand residents before the ore played out. Stone foundations,…
- Sulphur — Ghost Town · Humboldt County, NV
Western Pacific Feather River Route station and sulfur-mining camp on the east edge of the Black Rock Desert / Kamma Mountains. The railroad town and associa…
- Sylvania — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Remote mining camp in the Sylvania Mountains southwest of Palmetto, with scattered cabins, vehicles, and mill remnants still standing on public desert roads.…
- Tenabo — Ghost Town · Lander County, NV
Bullion Mining District boomtown founded after 1905–07 gold-silver discoveries on the east side of the Shoshone Range; briefly reached ~1,000 residents with …
- Tobar — Ghost Town · Elko County, NV
Western Pacific construction camp turned railroad hamlet on Tobar Flat, Elko County, established in 1908 (also known as Clover City), with a post office 1911…
- Tokop — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Short-lived early-1900s gold camp on the Gold Point 7.5′ quad, southeast of Gold Point / Hornsilver country. Claims staked around 1902; a small camp with a p…
- Tunnel Camp — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
Best-preserved camp in the Seven Troughs gold district west of Lovelock. Built in the late 1920s around a cyanide mill and long drain-tunnel project after th…
- Tuscarora — Ghost Town · Elko County, NV
Chinese miners made up a large portion of the workforce — their quarter's ruins are among the most intact Chinese historic sites in Nevada. Victorian homes, …
- Tybo — Ghost Town · Nye County, NV
Remote lead-silver camp in the Hot Creek Range with a standing stone charcoal kiln complex among the best-preserved in central Nevada. Documented extensively…
- Unionville — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
Mark Twain's first Nevada mining experience, immortalized in Roughing It (1872). He spent a disastrous winter here in 1861. Stone ruins line Buena Vista Cany…
- 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…
- Vernon — Ghost Town · Pershing County, NV
Seven Troughs district mining camp founded in 1905 northwest of Lovelock, with a post office from 1906 to 1918. Stone jail remnants and foundation depression…
- Virginia City — Ghost Town · Storey County, NV
The most famous mining town in the American West — the Comstock Lode produced over $400M in silver and gold, transformed San Francisco, and funded the Union …
- Vya — Ghost Town · Washoe County, NV
Remote northwestern Washoe ghost settlement about ten miles east of the California line in High Rock / Massacre Rim country. A brief early-1900s ranch and po…
- Washington (Storey) — Ghost Town · Storey County, NV
Short-lived Comstock-era toll-road settlement on the Washington Toll Road (later Lousetown / SR 45 corridor) between the Truckee River at Lockwood and Virgin…
- Washoe City — Ghost Town · Washoe County, NV
First Washoe County seat (1861–1871) on the north shore of Washoe Lake, founded 1860 as a lumber and ore-milling camp serving the Comstock. Once lined with m…
- Weepah — Ghost Town · Esmeralda County, NV
Site of the last major U.S. gold-rush stampede (March–April 1927) on the SE slope of Lone Mountain SW of Tonopah — the so-called auto-camp rush. Brief tent c…
- 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…
- Yankee Blade — Ghost Town · Lander County, NV
1863 Reese River silver camp a few miles north of Austin, renamed for the first producing mine after an early Boston newspaper. By 1864–65 dozens of adobe/st…