Reilly
Former settlement
Reilly is located in California
Reilly
Reilly
Location in California
Coordinates: 36°00′25″N 117°22′08″W / 36.00694°N 117.36889°W / 36.00694; -117.36889
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyInyo County
Elevation2,582 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]

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

Reilly is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Time Line

References

  1. ^ a b c d U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Reilly, California
  2. ^ a b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: 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.