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660 Mathew Street, Eureka, NV 89316
- ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Eureka County, NV" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved March 11, 2023. - Text list
- 1 2 Longhi, Lorraine (November 1, 2022). "School Board candidate's past as rural superintendent questioned". Las Vegas Review-Journal . Retrieved March 11, 2023.
- 1 2 3 Morell, Casey (August 18, 2017). "Back To School In Eureka County". KNPR . Retrieved March 11, 2023.
- ↑ "School provides a focal point for community". Reno Gazette-Journal . June 13, 1999. p. 1C. - Clipping from Newspapers.com. Text detail A and Text detail B: "Once they're in high school, [...]" - The main idea of the article is the school serving the reservation students, so this talks about people living on the reservation and where they go to high school.
- ↑ Papinchak, Steve (September 28, 1986). "It's back to basics at Duckwater's 1-room school". Reno Gazette-Journal . pp. 1D–2D. - Clipping of first (Text detail) and of second page (Text detail A, text detail B) at Newspapers.com. "[...]or they can take the dirt road that leads to Eureka High School,[...]" - The main idea is the public Duckwater, NV grade school, so the article is talking about the Duckwater, NV community.
