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Nye County
Trails to the Past of Nevada is accepting any
donations of genealogy materials that you may have
such as marriage announcements, news articles, old
obituaries, births, (you do not need the birth
certificate) just the information, and
biographies. If you have any of these items
please contact me Marie Miller the Nevada
State Administrator.
Nye
County was established during the American Civil
War in 1864 and named after James W. Nye. He
served as the first governor of the Nevada
Territory and later as a U.S. Senator after it was
admitted as a state. The first county seat was
Ione in 1864, followed by Belmont in 1867, and
finally by Tonopah in 1905.
The county's first boom
came in the early 20th century, when Rhyolite and
Tonopah, as well as Goldfield in nearby Esmeralda
County, all had gold and silver mining booms. In
1906, Goldfield had 30,000 residents, Tonopah had
nearly 10,000 people, and Rhyolite peaked at about
10,000. These cities were linked by the Tonopah
and Tidewater Railroad.
Bullfrog Mine was
discovered by Frank "Shorty" Harris and Eddie
Cross on August 9, 1904. The name Bullfrog was the
name chosen either because Eddie Cross was fond of
singing 'O, the bulldog on the bank and the
bullfrog in the pool...' or because the ore sample
of rich gold was found in green-stained rock and
was frog-shaped.
 It is probable
Original was added to the name of the mine to
distinguish it from the mining camp. By the winter
of 1904, Bullfrog had about a thousand people
living in tents, dugouts and congested traffic
made a demand for rail connections The
Bullfrog-Goldfield Railroad reached Rhyolite on
May 22, 1907
The ruins of
Bullfrog County Jail
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Inhabited communities
Amargosa
Valley
Beatty
Carvers
Crystal
Currant
Duckwater
Gabbs
Hadley
Manhattan
Mercury
Pahrump
Round
Mountain
Scotty's
Junction
Sunnyside
Tonopah (county
seat)
Tybo
Yomba
Census-designated
places
Beatty
Gabbs
Pahrump
Tonopah |
Ghost towns
Belmont
Bonnie
Claire
Bullfrog
Berlin
Cactus
Springs
Carrara
Gold Center
Grantsville
Ione
Lockes
Nyala
Pioneer
Potts
Reveille
Rhyolite
Warm
Springs
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Adjacent
counties
Churchill
County
- northwest
Lander County -
north
Eureka County - north
White Pine
County - northeast
Lincoln County -
east
Clark County - east
Esmeralda County -
west
Mineral County - west
Inyo County,
California - south
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