Reilly, California

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Reilly
Former settlement
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Reilly
Location in California
Coordinates: 36°00′25″N117°22′08″W / 36.00694°N 117.36889°W / 36.00694; -117.36889
Country United States
State California
County Inyo County
Elevation
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2,582 ft (787 m)

Reilly is a former settlement in Inyo County, California. [1] It was located on the west side of the Panamint Valley, [2] at an elevation of 2582 feet (787 m). [1] Reilly was a silver mining community in the late 19th century. [1] [3] [4]

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A post office operated at Reilly in 1883. [2]

Reilly is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Reilly, California
  2. 1 2 Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, California: Word Dancer Press. p. 1192. ISBN   1-884995-14-4.
  3. Vredenburgh, Larry M., Shumway, Gary L., Hartill, Russell, D., 1981, Desert Fever, an overview of mining in the California Desert, Living West Press: Canoga Park, California, p. 71, 72.
  4. Vredenburgh, Larry M., 1987, Reilly: The well preserved ruins of an 1880s mining camp, in Proceedings. First Death Valley Conference on History and Prehistory February 8 – 11, 1987.
  5. James J. Barnes, 2002, The Life of Reilly: The Archaeology of an 1880s silver mine in Panamint Valley, California. MA thesis, Sonoma State University, 446 pp.