List of ghost towns in Nevada - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of ghost towns in Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

. Most ghost towns in Nevada were mining towns abandoned when the mines closed.

**Nevada Ghost Towns**
Town	Image	County	Established	Disestablished	Status	Notes
Aurora Aurora, Nevada Aurora is a ghost town in Mineral County in the western central part of the U.S. state of Nevada, approximately southwest of the town of Hawthorne and three miles from the California border....		Mineral	1860
Belleville Belleville, Nevada Belleville, Nevada, in Mineral County, Nevada, United States, was a mining town that rose up around the milling of ore shipped in from nearby mines. Today it is a ghost town.-History:...		Mineral	1872
Belmont Belmont, Nevada Belmont is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States. The town is a historic district listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is Nevada Historical Marker number 138.-History:...		Nye	1865
Beowawe Beowawe, Nevada Beowawe is a ghost town in Eureka County in northeastern Nevada in the western United States. Beowawe is a Paiute Native American word meaning "gate", so named for the peculiar shape of the hills close to town which gives the effect of a gateway opening to the valley beyond. The town is located at...		Eureka	1868
Berlin		Nye	1897	1911
Blair Blair, Nevada -History:Today a historical marker commemorates Blair along State Route 265 just north of Silver Peak. At one time Blair was a thriving, albeit short-lived, mining boom town. As mining reached a fever pitch in Nevada during the Tonopah boom, the effects spidered out in all directions to revive many...		Esmeralda
Bristol		Lincoln
Broken Hills Broken Hills, Nevada Broken Hills is a ghost town in Mineral County, Nevada. It was developed in 1913, after gold was discovered in the area.Broken Hills was founded by two Englishmen, Joseph Arthur and James Stratford. They were the first people to find ore within Broken Hills. After five years of labor, both Arthur...		Mineral
Bullfrog Bullfrog, Nevada Bullfrog is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located at the north end of the Amargosa Desert about west of Beatty. Less than north of Bullfrog are the Bullfrog Hills and the ghost town of Rhyolite...		Nye
Bullionville		Lincoln
Candelaria Candelaria, Nevada Candelaria was a town in Mineral County, Nevada, approximately 121 miles southeast of Fallon. Today the site of Candelaria is dominated by the Kinross Gold Candelaria Mine on Mt...		Mineral
Castleton		Lincoln
Cactus Springs Cactus Springs, Nye County, Nevada Cactus Springs is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada. It is currently within the boundaries of the Nellis Air Force Range.Activity began in 1901 with the discovery of turquoise on Cactus Peak...		Nye
Chafey Dun Glen, Nevada Dun Glen is a ghost town in Pershing County, Nevada, United States, north of the present community of Mill City. Found in 1862, it was a silver mining community founded at a site then within Humboldt County.-Dun Glenn:...		Pershing
Cobre Cobre, Nevada Cobre is an uninhabited ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States. The town was located at the former interchange point between the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Nevada Northern Railway, and came into being when construction of the Nevada Northern began in 1905...		Elko
Coaldale Coaldale, Nevada Coaldale is a ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada. There is reportedly also a community with the same name in Nye County, Nevada. Coaldale had a store, cafe, motel, and service station as late as 1993, but is now abandoned.- External links :*...		Esmeralda
Columbus Columbus, Nevada Columbus was a borax mining boom town in Esmeralda County. Its remnants are located on the edge of the Columbus Salt Marsh.-History:Settlement came to the Columbus Salt Marsh in 1865 with the raising of a quartz mill. Columbus was the ideal location for a mill, as it was the only stop for several...		Esmeralda
Cortez		Lander
Crystal Springs Crystal Springs, Nevada Crystal Springs is a ghost town in the Pahranagat Valley region of Lincoln County, Nevada. The ghost town is located at the junction of SR 318 and SR 375, also known as the Extraterrestrial Highway. It is a popular destination for passersby who want to visit the towns of Hiko and Rachel...		Lincoln
Currant Currant, Nevada Currant is a small town in Nye County, Nevada. Settled in 1868, it was first a farming town with a small population. Its current population is 65.-Transportation:Currant is located on U.S. Route 6 at the junction of State Route 379...		Nye
Daveytown		Humboldt
Deeth Deeth, Nevada Deeth, Nevada is an unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada with a population of approximately 28. It used to be more populous, with a water tower, a saloon, a hotel, and other businesses and structures. However, many people have left to find better opportunities. Now only a small...		Elko
Delano Delano, Nevada Delano is a ghost town located in northeastern Elko County, Nevada, about 36 miles north of Montello. Delano was the center of a small gold-mining district that saw production from the 1870s to the 1960s. The post office closed in 1927....		Elko
Delamar Delamar, Nevada Delamar, Nevada, nicknamed The Widowmaker, is a ghost town in central eastern Nevada, USA along the east side of the Delamar Valley. During its heyday, primarily between 1895 and 1900, it produced $13.5 million in gold.-History:...		Lincoln
Dixie Valley		Churchill
Dun Glen Dun Glen, Nevada Dun Glen is a ghost town in Pershing County, Nevada, United States, north of the present community of Mill City. Found in 1862, it was a silver mining community founded at a site then within Humboldt County.-Dun Glenn:...		Pershing
Etna Etna (site), Nevada Etna is a former townsite, now abandoned, in Pershing County, Nevada. It lies at an elevation of 4170 feet ....		Pershing
Fairview		Churchill
Ferguson		Lincoln
Fish Lake Valley Fish Lake Valley, Nevada Fish Lake Valley is a ghost town located in Esmeralda County, Nevada and Inyo County, California.It is just east of the White Mountains , the highest range entirely within the Great Basin at...		Esmeralda
Fort Churchill Fort Churchill State Historic Park Fort Churchill State Historic Park is a Nevada state park in Lyon County, Nevada, in the United States. Located south of the town of Silver Springs, it is in the Central Nevada Region of Nevada State Parks, and is one of seven National Historic Landmarks in the state of Nevada. The site is one...		Lyon
Gold Point Gold Point, Nevada Gold Point, Nevada is a well preserved ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada.-History:The area that would become Gold Point was first settled by ranchers and a few miners during the 1880s...		Esmeralda
Gold Acres		Lander
Gold Center Gold Center, Nevada Gold Center was a mining town in Nye County, Nevada.Located in the Bullfrog Mining District near Tonopah, Gold Center was established in December 1904 with a United States Post Office being authorized on January 21, 1905. The town began publishing its own newspaper in 1907. The location of the...		Nye
Goldfield Goldfield, Nevada Goldfield is an unincorporated community and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States, with a resident population of 440 at the 2000 census. It is located about southeast of Carson City, along U.S...		Esmeralda
Grantsville		Nye
Hamilton Hamilton, Nevada Hamilton is an abandoned mining town located in the White Pine Range, in western White Pine County, Nevada, USA. The town boomed in 1868 and 1869 following the discovery of rich silver deposits nearby, but the ore deposits proved shallow and by 1870 the region was already in decline...		White Pine
Helene		Lincoln
Henry		Elko
Hiko Hiko, Nevada Hiko, Nevada, is a small, agrarian community of the Tonopah Basin on State Route 318 in Lincoln County, Nevada. At one time Hiko was the county seat, and a few hundred residents lived nearby, due largely to silver mines in the area...		Lincoln
Ione Ione, Nevada Ione, Nevada is an unincorporated community in Nye County, Nevada, located approximately 23 miles east of Gabbs, Nevada. Current services include one grocery store....		Nye
Johnnie		Nye
Jungo		Humboldt
Logan Logan, Nevada Logan, Nevada, is a ghost town located in the hills about 12 miles west of Hiko. Logan had its brief existence as a mining camp when silver ore was discovered in 1865 just to the north of it in Silver Canyon on Mount Irish....		Lincoln
Marietta Marietta, Nevada -History:The area was extensively prospected by the well-known prospector F.M. "Borax" Smith, and Teel's Marsh near Marietta is often credited with providing Smith his start in the borax business...		Mineral
Midas Midas, Nevada Midas is a small town in Elko County, Nevada. Although its population has fluctuated greatly over the years and it often appears on ghost town lists, it has never been completely abandoned.-History:...		Elko
Miller's Miller's, Nevada Miller's is a ghost town located in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Deserted today, Miller's sprang up as a mining boomtown after the Tonopah boom began.-History:...		Esmeralda
Mountain City Mountain City, Nevada Mountain City is a small unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada, United States. This ghost town on State Route 225, approximately south of the Idaho border, it is situated on the Owyhee River at an elevation of approximately ....		Elko
Mule Lick		Nye	1890
Nevada City Nevada City, Nevada Nevada City is a ghost town in Churchill County, Nevada, United States....		Churchill
Osceola Osceola, Nevada Osceola, Nevada, is a ghost town in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The town was a placer camp devoted to mining gold. Gold was first discovered in 1872, followed by exploitation of the deposits using hydraulic mining techniques. Two ditches, the Osceola West Ditch and the Osceola...		White Pine
Palisade Palisade, Nevada Palisade is located in Eureka County in the northeastern section of the state of Nevada, in the western United States. It is about 10 miles south of Carlin, and about 27 miles southwest of Elko. Although now a virtual ghost town, it had a rich history following construction of the...		Eureka
Pioneer Pioneer, Nevada Pioneer is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Beginning as a mining camp near the Mayflower and other gold mines in northern Bullfrog Hills, it became a formal town in 1908 and flourished briefly until fire destroyed much of its business district in 1909 and litigation delayed...		Nye	1908			Post office 1909–1931
Poeville Poeville, Nevada Poeville, also known as Peavine until 1863, is the site of a historical mining town, established in 1864. John Poe, a professional promoter from Michigan allegedly related to Edgar Allan Poe, discovered rich gold and silver veins in 1862 on the slopes of Peavine Mountain...		Washoe	1864	1880		Post office 1874–1878
Pioche Pioche, Nevada -External links:*...		Lincoln
Potosi Potosi Mining District The Potosi Mining District, or Potosi, is an area in the in Clark County of southern Nevada, U.S. It listed on the National Register of Historic Places and includes three structures. The town was named after the famous silver-mining city of Potosi, Bolivia.-History:The mines in the area produced...		Clark
Quartz Mountain		Nye
Ragtown Ragtown, Nevada Ragtown, Nevada, is a Churchill County ghost town of an abandoned 1854 trading post west of Fallon....		Churchill
Rawhide Rawhide, Nevada Rawhide, Nevada was a town in Mineral County, Nevada, approximately 55 miles southeast of Fallon. The site of Rawhide has been obliterated by recent mining activity, with little or nothing remaining to be seen.-History:...		Mineral
Rochester Rochester, Nevada Rochester, Nevada, was a silver-mining town in Pershing County, Nevada, approximately east of Reno. It is now a ghost town. Lower Rochester is still available to visitors; Upper Rochester has been buried under mine tailings of the more recent Coeur Rochester open pit mine.-History:Rochester is...		Pershing
Rhyolite Rhyolite, Nevada Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located in the Bullfrog Hills, about northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern edge of Death Valley. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding...		Nye	1904			Post office closed 1913
Rio Tinto		Elko
Ruby Hill Ruby Hill, Nevada Ruby Hill is now a ghost town in Eureka County, in the central part of the U.S. state of Nevada, approximately west of the town of Eureka, Nevada. In 1910, the town was destroyed by a powerful storm that washed away the railroad and other buildings and left the town uninhabitable.- History :In...		Eureka	1873	1910
Ruth Ruth, Nevada Ruth is a small town in White Pine County, Nevada, that was founded in 1903. It is a census-designated place, with a population in 2010 of 440.- History :Ruth began as a settlement for workers of the White Pine Copper Company in 1903...		White Pine
Seven Troughs		Pershing
Silver Canyon		Lincoln
St. Thomas St. Thomas, Nevada St. Thomas, Nevada, is a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada, near where the Muddy River flows into the Colorado River. St. Thomas was purchased by the US Federal Government and abandoned as the waters of Lake Mead submerged the town. It is now located within the Lake Mead National Recreation...		Clark
Star City Star City, Nevada Star City was a silver-mining boom town in Pershing County, Nevada. It was located in the Star Mining District.The site is marked as Nevada Historical Marker 231.-History:...		Pershing
Sulphur Sulphur, Nevada Sulphur, Nevada, is a Nevada ghost town that was a Feather River Route station in the Black Rock Desert along the Kamma Mountains.-References:...		Lyon
Tempiute		Lincoln
Tenabo		Lander
Treasure City		White Pine
Tybo		Nye
Unionville Unionville, Nevada Unionville is a small hamlet in Pershing County, Nevada, with the most recent population estimate being approximately 20 people. The town's best years were during the 1870s, when it was an active mining and prospecting town serving the surrounding hilly region. For a brief time, Samuel Langhorne...		Pershing
Vernon Vernon, Nevada Vernon, was a small mining town, now a ghost town, located in Pershing County, Nevada northwest of Lovelock.-History:The town was founded in 1905 to serve as a base for the nearby mines in the Seven Troughs mining district...		Pershing
Vya Vya, Nevada Vya, Nevada is a small ghost town located in Washoe County, in northwestern Nevada. It is to the east of the California state line, about 10 miles plus. Not much remains of the small town, which essentially died in the 1920s. Just two wooden buildings can still be seen—the Vya Post Office and Library...		Washoe
White Cloud City White Cloud City, Nevada White Cloud City, also known as Coppereid, is a ghost town inside Churchill County country, in Nevada, United States. It had a total population of 40 people. However nobody lives there today.-External links:* at GhostTowns.com...		Churchill
Wonder Wonder, Nevada Wonder, Nevada, was a town in Churchill County, Nevada, approximately miles east of Fallon at an elevation of . Today Wonder is a deserted ghost town.-History:...		Churchill

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