Alkali, Nevada

Last updated
Alkali, Nevada
Ghost town
USA Nevada location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Alkali
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Alkali
Coordinates: 37°49′33″N117°20′15″W / 37.82583°N 117.33750°W / 37.82583; -117.33750 Coordinates: 37°49′33″N117°20′15″W / 37.82583°N 117.33750°W / 37.82583; -117.33750 [1]
Country United States
State Nevada
County Esmeralda County
Elevation
[1]
5,000 ft (2,000 m)

Alkali [1] is a ghost town located in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Alkali is the site of Alkali Hot Spring, [2] [3] [4] which was operated as a spa by Geni and Joe Guisti in the 1930s. [5] During Goldfield's peak, the site included an indoor wooden swimming pool with a separate area for children and a large building containing a dining room, kitchen, dance hall and bar. In front of the dining room were tall tamarisk trees and a large picnic table where visitors could either order from the dining room or bring their own lunches. The Guisti residence was at the rear of the dining room. Geni Guisti served young folks grape juice over ice at the bar, which was considered a real treat. Friday and Saturday night dances were attended by Tonopah residents. [6] [7]

The waters of the spring originally appeared as a series of small seeps. In the early 1900s, Consolidated Mines Co. created a 40-foot adit to collect the seeps in to a single flow. At the time, the water was pumped about 10 miles (16 km) to the Combination Mill at Goldfield. The adit entrance temperature was reported to be 140 °F (60 °C). [6] A Goldfield resident stated that the source of the spring is under the defunct powerhouse. [4] The spring is reported to contain lithium, though the surface of nearby Alkali Flat (Alkali Lake [8] ) does not. [9]

In 2018, RAM Power held a geothermal leases near Alkali Hot Spring. [4] [10]

Related Research Articles

Tonopah, Nevada Unincorporated town in Nevada, United States

Tonopah is an unincorporated town in and the county seat of Nye County, Nevada, United States. It is located at the junction of U.S. Routes 6 and 95, approximately midway between Las Vegas and Reno. In the 2010 census, the population was 2,478. The census-designated place (CDP) of Tonopah has a total area of 16.2 square miles (42 km2), all land.

Black Rock Desert Northwest Nevada dry lake

The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa 100 miles (160 km) north of Reno, Nevada that encompasses more than 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of land and contains more than 120 miles (200 km) of historic trails. It is in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan.

Goldfield, Nevada Census-designated place in Nevada, United States

Goldfield is an unincorporated community and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada. It is a census-designated place, with a resident population of 268 at the 2010 census, down from 440 in 2000. Goldfield is located 247 miles (398 km) southeast of Carson City, along U.S. Route 95.

Rhyolite, Nevada Ghost town in Nevada, United States

Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.

Josiah Edward Spurr American geologist

Josiah Edward Spurr (1870–1950) was an American geologist, explorer, and author. Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he was considered something of a failure as a youth, unsuited for the family fishing business, since on a voyage he invariably became seasick. Since he could not be a productive fisherman like his brothers, his parents decided he might as well go to college. After working his way through Harvard, he began his career with the Minnesota Geological Survey, making the first-ever geological map of the great Mesabi iron range in Minnesota.

Silver Peak, Nevada Census-designated place in Nevada, United States

Silver Peak is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States. It lies along State Route 265, 20 miles (32 km) south of U.S. Route 6 and 30 miles (48 km) west of Goldfield, the county seat of Esmeralda County. It has a post office, with the ZIP code of 89047. The population of Silver Peak was 142 as of 2019.

Coaldale, Nevada

Coaldale is a former mining town and true ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada, located at the junction of U.S. Route 6 and U.S. Route 95 about 40 miles (64 km) west of Tonopah.

Manhattan, Nevada Unincorporated town in Nevada, United States

Manhattan is an unincorporated town in Nye County, Nevada, located at the end of Nevada State Route 377, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Tonopah, the county seat.

Blair, Nevada Ghost town in Nevada, United States

Blair, Nevada is a mining ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada.

George Wingfield

George Wingfield was a Nevada cattleman and gambler who became a financier, investor and one of the state's most powerful economic and political figures during the period from 1909 to 1932. With future senator George S. Nixon as his mentor after he settled in Winnemucca in 1899, and fellow gambler John Hennessy as his partner in the mining boomtown of Tonopah after 1901, Wingfield rose from faro-dealer to become richest man in Nevada in less than five years.

Hot Springs is located in Nye County, just north of Beatty, Nevada. In the early 1900s, the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad Company and the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad stopped at a station in Hot Springs.

Trego Hot Springs Ghost town in Nevada, United States

Trego Hot Springs is located in the Black Rock Desert at the location of Trego, Nevada, a former station on the Western Pacific Railroad. The name "Trego" dates from the 1910s, just after the railroad was built. Previously, the springs had names like Hot Springs, Kyles Hot Springs (1864), Butte Spring, and Butte Hot Spring.

Thorne, Nevada Railroad junction

Thorne, Nevada is a rail junction and former town located in Mineral County, Nevada.

Blair Junction, Nevada Ghost town

Blair Junction is the neglected site of a formerly populated settlement in Esmeralda County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.

Gilbert, Nevada Ghost town

Gilbert is an extinct town in Esmeralda County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.

McLeans, Nevada Ghost town

McLeans is a ghost town located in Esmeralda County, Nevada and former station on the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad east of Blair Junction and west of Millers.

The Nevada State League was an Independent level minor league baseball league that played in the 1907 season. The four–team Nevada State League consisted of teams based in Nevada. The Nevada State League played just the 1907 season before permanently folding.

Carson City was a minor league baseball team based in Carson City, Nevada in 1907. The team moniker was noted to be the "Capitals", as Carson City played the 1907 season as members of the Independent level Nevada State League. The 1907 Carson City team is the only minor league team hosted in Carson City to date.

Goldfield was a minor league baseball team based in Goldfield, Nevada in 1907. The team moniker was noted to be the "Miners", as Goldfield played the 1907 season as members of the Independent level Nevada State League. The 1907 Goldfield team was the only minor league team hosted in Goldfield, Nevada.

Tonopah was a minor league baseball team based in Tonopah, Nevada in 1907. The team moniker was noted to be the "Mollycoddlers," as Tonopah played the 1907 season as members of the Independent level Nevada State League. The 1907 Tonopah team was the only minor league team hosted in Tonopah, Nevada.

References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alkali
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alkali Hot Spring
  3. ↑ Nevada And The Southeastern Of California (Map). Denver: Clason Map Company. 1907. Retrieved 27 Jul 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 "Alkali Hot Springs Site Description" (PDF). Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. 2014. Retrieved 27 Jul 2018.
  5. ↑ Malmgren, Betty (15 Nov 1976). "Geny and Joe Guisti observe 70th Wedding Anniversary". Reno Gazette-Journal . p. 7. Retrieved 27 Jul 2018– via Newspapers.com. Lock-green.svg
  6. 1 2 Garside, J. L.; Schilling, J. H. (1979). "Thermal Waters of Nevada" (PDF). Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin. Reno (91): 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 27 Jul 2018.
  7. ↑ Rosevear, Marion Dobrowsky (1976). "Growing Up in Tonopah". In Paher, Stanley W. (ed.). Nevada Official Bicentennial Book. Las Vegas: Nevada Publications. Retrieved 27 Jul 2018.
  8. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alkali Lake
  9. ↑ Albers, J. P; Stewart, J. H. (1972). "Geology and mineral deposits of Esmeralda County". Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin (78).
  10. ↑ "Clayton Valley Project". RAM Power. Retrieved 27 Jul 2018.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.