Pershing County, Nevada
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- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Humboldt Wildlife Management Area — Wildlife · Pershing County, NV
NDOW’s Humboldt–Toulon WMA (~36,000 acres) in the Humboldt Sink southwest of Lovelock — Upper/Lower Humboldt Lakes and Toulon Lake units that serve as a majo…
- 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…
- Kyle Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Pershing County, NV
Kyle Hot Springs is a primitive soak in Buena Vista Valley (Pershing County), reached by a long dirt road that filters out casual traffic. A rustic tub captu…
- Nightingale Range — Garnets — Rockhound · Pershing County, NV
East flanks of the Nightingale Mountains yield almandine garnet crystals eroding from metamorphic host rock. BLM land with free collecting. One of the better…
- 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…
- 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…
- Rye Patch Reservoir — Garnets & Fossils — Rockhound · Pershing County, NV
Public land and shoreline around Rye Patch Reservoir on the I-80 corridor expose mixed desert rock, jasper, and occasional fossil-bearing beds near Triassic …
- 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…
- 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,…
- Star Peak — Natural · Pershing County, NV
Highest and most prominent summit of the Humboldt Range and Pershing County highpoint (~9,836 ft / ~5,400 ft prominence — a Lower 48 ultra). Steep public-lan…
- Thunder Mountain Monument — Historic · Pershing County, NV
Outsider-art complex and living memorial built from 1969 by Frank Van Zant (Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder) beside I-80 at Imlay. Concrete, bottle-glass, and…
- Trego Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Pershing County, NV
A primitive geothermal spring and soaking ditch on BLM land at the edge of the Black Rock Desert playa near the old Trego railroad siding. Long a stop for pl…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…