Springdale, Nevada

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Springdale, Nevada, ca. 1912

Springdale is a privately owned ghost town in Nevada, United States. It is inaccessible to the general public.

Ghost town City depopulated of inhabitants and that stays practically intact

A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, prolonged droughts, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, pollution, or nuclear disasters. The term can sometimes refer to cities, towns, and neighbourhoods that are still populated, but significantly less so than in past years; for example, those affected by high levels of unemployment and dereliction.

Nevada U.S. state in the United States

Nevada is a state in the Western United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 32nd most populous, but the 9th least densely populated of the U.S. states. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area where three of the state's four largest incorporated cities are located. Nevada's capital is Carson City.

Location

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Topographic map of Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad 1908 north of Bullfrog

Springdale lies in Nye County, along the Amargosa River at a crossroad of U.S. Route 95 between Las Vegas and Reno.

Nye County, Nevada County in the United States

Nye County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,946. Its county seat is Tonopah. At 18,159 square miles (47,030 km2), Nye is the largest county by area in the state and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States.

Amargosa River intermittent waterway in southern Nevada and eastern California

The Amargosa River is an intermittent waterway, 185 miles (298 km) long, in southern Nevada and eastern California in the United States. It drains a high desert region, the Amargosa Valley in the Amargosa Desert northwest of Las Vegas, into the Mojave Desert, and finally into Death Valley where it disappears into the ground aquifer. Except for a small portion of its route in the Amargosa Canyon in California and a small portion at Beatty, Nevada, the river flows above ground only after a rare rainstorm washes the region. A 26-mile (42 km) stretch of the river between Shoshone and Dumont Dunes is protected as a National Wild and Scenic River. At the south end of Tecopa Valley the Amargosa River Natural Area protects the habitat.

U.S. Route 95 in Nevada highway in Nevada

U.S. Route 95 is a major U.S. highway traversing the U.S. state of Nevada from north to south directly through Las Vegas and providing connections to both Carson City and Reno. US 95 is cosigned with Interstate 80 for 95 miles (153 km) between a junction in Trinity and Winnemucca before heading north into Oregon at McDermitt.

The first settlers in the area were Native American Indians. When the first Europeans arrived in the late 1800s, six ranches were built along the Bonanza Trail, making use of the valley's fertile soil. Three were owned by George Davies, Ed Giles and "Panamint Joe" Stuart [1] of the Indian Joe Ranch, which was sold to A. J. Lidwell. One ranch was called Windmill Ranch. [2] [3]

Native Americans in the United States Indigenous peoples of the United States (except Hawaii)

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Albert J. "Lucky" Lidwell set up a town around the old Indian Joe Ranch in July 1906. A station of the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad was opened in May 1907, which was also used by the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad since 1908. The area was rich in both firewood and water, which were both needed to run steam locomotives. In 1907, the town got its own post office, of course with Lucky Lidwell as postmaster. By that time the town had four saloons, several restaurants, a school, a depot, a sawmill. A fifty-ton mill was used to process ores from the surrounding mines, a Gilds Mall, a hotel, a livery stable provided employment to many workers, who were served by 14 illicit prostitutes in the increasingly attractive red light area. [2]

Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad

The Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (BGRR) was a former Class II railroad lying just inside and about midway of the southwestern State line of Nevada. It was incorporated in 1905 to provide an outlet from the mining section near Beatty to the north over the lines of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad

The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad was a former class II railroad that ran within the locale of eastern California and southwestern Nevada.

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The Springdale Water & Power Co. began on 7 April 1909 to supply electricity to the town, which had 293 inhabitants in 1910. Springdale was very popular, but its attractiveness declined when the ore mill closed down in 1911. The post office was subsequently relocated to Pioneer on 15 January 1912. The railroad stopped operating in 1928, and the depot was dismantled and relocated to Las Vegas for another use. [2]

Pioneer, Nevada Ghost town in Nevada, United States

Pioneer is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Beginning as a mining camp near the Mayflower and other gold mines in northern Bullfrog Hills, it became a formal town in 1908 and flourished briefly until fire destroyed much of its business district in 1909 and litigation delayed mining. Population peaked at an estimated 2,500 in 1908, and the community survived at least through the closing of the Pioneer post office in 1931. Mining continued near the town site through 1941. Few remnants of Pioneer structures survived through the end of the 20th century.

Due to the increasing popularity of private cars, U.S. Route 95 was built, along which a Union Oil gas station, one or two repair shops and a junkyard offered their services to motorists. Springdale was just outside of the Air Force's military ranges, where bomber pilots were trained for their service in World War II. [2] Use of extensive areas as bombing ranges limited the nearby population that the town had served.

As of 2017 some of the old buildings still exist. The properties in and around Springdale are owned by a half-dozen locals and are inhabited by four families. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Stoffle, Richard W.; Olmsted, John E.; Evans, Michael J. (Jan 1990). Literature Review and Ethnohistory of Native American Occupancy and Use of the Yucca Mountain Region (PDF). Las Vegas, Nevada: Science Applications International Corporation. p. 33. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 jb. "Ghost Town, Springdale Nevada". frias.net. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
  3. ↑ "Springdale - Nevada Ghost Town". ghosttowns.com. Retrieved 2017-04-21.

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