Esmeralda County, Nevada
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- 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…
- Blair Junction — Historic · Esmeralda County, NV
Former Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad junction west of Coaldale where the Blair branch left the main line for the Silver Peak country. Today it is a lonely des…
- Boundary Peak — Natural · Esmeralda County, NV
Highest natural point in Nevada (13,140–13,147 ft) on the White Mountains crest in Boundary Peak Wilderness (Inyo National Forest). Strenuous day hike via Qu…
- Clayton Valley Cinder Cone — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
Pleistocene basalt scoria cone (~390,000 years old) rising about 85 m beside NV-265 in Clayton Valley north of Silver Peak. Loose cinders, volcanic bombs, an…
- 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…
- Coaldale Junction — Obsidian — Rockhound · Esmeralda County, NV
Extensive obsidian flows near Coaldale on Highway 95. High-quality black volcanic glass used by Great Basin peoples for thousands of years. BLM collecting wi…
- 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 …
- Cuprite — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
World-famous hydrothermal alteration landscape south of Goldfield where late Miocene acid-sulfate systems painted the hills in bright clays, alunite, and iro…
- Emigrant Peak — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
Isolated summit on the Rhyolite Ridge / Emigrant Peak map sheet north of the Silver Peak Range, a hard-rock desert highpoint above the Clayton Valley–Fish La…
- Fish Lake — Natural · Esmeralda County, NV
Namesake lake/wetland feature on the floor of Fish Lake Valley beneath the White Mountains—an alkaline desert lake and valley bottom landscape distinct from …
- Fish Lake Valley — Agate & Opal — Rockhound · Esmeralda County, NV
Remote collector-favorite area between Nevada and California. Known for opalite specimens, chalcedony roses, common opal, and moss agate. Listed top 10 by ro…
- Fish Lake Valley Hot Well — Hot Spring · Esmeralda County, NV
County-managed concrete soaking tub fed by an artesian geothermal well at roughly 105°F, with overflow ponds that draw waterfowl and goldfish under Boundary …
- Gemfield — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
Pay-to-dig chalcedony field about four miles northwest of Goldfield on the US-95 corridor, marketed as one of the largest gemstone-quality chalcedony deposit…
- 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 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…
- Goldfield Gem Field — Agate — Rockhound · Esmeralda County, NV
Honor-system agate collecting site a couple miles south of Goldfield on the Hwy 95 corridor. Various colors of agate and silica minerals — leave a donation i…
- 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…
- Magruder Mountain — Natural · Esmeralda County, NV
Bald 9,000-ft summit on the Magruder–Palmetto massif with long views into Death Valley country and the White Mountains. Class-2 desert peak bag with roughly …
- Malpais Mesa — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
A dark volcanic mesa on the southwest fringe of the Goldfield district, gazetted by the Board on Geographic Names and long mapped in classic USGS Goldfield g…
- 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…
- 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…
- Pigeon Spring Stamp Mill — Historic · Esmeralda County, NV
1890–1907 ten-stamp mill and short-lived settlement on the Lida–Palmetto road, with mill ruins still visible from SR-266. A small camp once held a store, sal…
- Piper Peak — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
High, high-prominence summit of the Silver Peak Range above Fish Lake Valley—one of Esmeralda’s landmark desert peaks. Granitic and metamorphic uplands drop …
- Silver Peak — Historic · Esmeralda County, NV
One of Nevada’s oldest continuously occupied mining communities (silver discovery 1863; townsite 1864). Stamp mills, boom-and-bust silver/gold cycles, a 1948…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Volcanic Hills — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
Named volcanic range on the Fish Lake Valley side of Esmeralda County—dark hills and rhyolitic ground between the White Mountains front and the Silver Peak c…
- 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…