Massacre Lake

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Massacre Lake
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Massacre Lake
Location Washoe County, Nevada
Coordinates 41°39′12″N119°36′18″W / 41.65333°N 119.60500°W / 41.65333; -119.60500
Surface elevation1,704 m (5,591 ft)

Massacre Lake is a lake in the northwest of the U.S. state of Nevada. [1] It was named in commemoration of a supposed 1850 massacre of a party of pioneers. [2] [3] [4] [5] However, a later study suggested that the supposed massacre never took place, due to it being absent in contemporary records. [6] As of 2021, the lake is the site of the oldest known mastodon remains in North America, dating to 16.5-16.4 million years ago. [7]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Massacre Lake
  2. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 70.
  3. ↑ The Origin of Place Names cites: Mack, Effie Mona (1936). "Nevada: A History of the State from the Earliest Times Through the Civil War" . Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  4. ↑ Mack cites "Nevada Section is Weird Land". Sacramento Bee. March 11, 1931. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
  5. ↑ Devere Helfrich (1971). "The Applegate Trail". Klamath Echoes (9). Klamath Falls Historical Society. Retrieved February 6, 2025. Includes a photo of the supposed grave on page iv.
  6. ↑ Thomas N. Layton, "Massacre! What Massacre? An inquiry into the Massacre of 1850," p 241-251, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 1977.
  7. ↑ Koenigswald, Widga & Göhlich (2021): New mammutids (Proboscidea) from the Clarendonian and Hemphillian of Oregon – a survey of Mio-Pliocene mammutids from North America


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