Sulphur,_Nevada Knowpia

Sulphur, Nevada
Sulphur, Nevada
Ghost town
	Sulphur Sulphur
	Coordinates: 40°52′29″N 118°44′12″W / 40.87472°N 118.73667°W
Country	United States
State	Nevada
County	Humboldt
Named for	Humboldt National Forest
Elevation	6,102 ft (1,860 m)

Sulphur, Nevada, is a ghost town in Humboldt County, Nevada^[1] that was a Feather River Route station in the Black Rock Desert along the Kamma Mountains.

History edit

A post office was in operation at Sulphur intermittently between 1899 and 1953.^[2] The community was named for deposits of sulphur near the original town site.^[3]

1914 WPRR map with Gerlach, Ascalon, Trego, Cholona, Ronda, and Sulphur.

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sulphur
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sulphur Post Office (historical)
^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 39.

[gnis-1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sulphur

[2] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sulphur Post Office (historical)

[3] Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 39.

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Sulphur, Nevada
Ghost town
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Coordinates: 40°52′29″N 118°44′12″W / 40.87472°N 118.73667°W / 40.87472; -118.73667^[1]
Country	United States
State	Nevada
County	Humboldt
Named for	Humboldt National Forest
Elevation ^[1]	6,102 ft (1,860 m)

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