Sulphur, Nevada
Ghost town
Sulphur is located in Nevada
Sulphur
Sulphur
Sulphur is located in the United States
Sulphur
Sulphur
Coordinates: 40°52′29″N 118°44′12″W / 40.87472°N 118.73667°W / 40.87472; -118.73667[1]
CountryUnited States
StateNevada
CountyHumboldt
Named forHumboldt National Forest
Elevation
[1]
6,102 ft (1,860 m)

Sulphur, Nevada, is a ghost town in Humboldt County, Nevada[1] that was a Feather River Route station in the Black Rock Desert along the Kamma Mountains.

History

A post office was in operation at Sulphur intermittently between 1899 and 1953.[2] The community was named for deposits of sulphur near the original town site.[3]

1914 WPRR map with Gerlach, Ascalon, Trego, Cholona, Ronda, and Sulphur.

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sulphur
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sulphur Post Office (historical)
  3. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 39.


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