Hot Springs, Nevada

Hot Springs is a ghost town in Eureka County, Nevada, US.

The water of the town is very rich in minerals and is used to help people with several diseases.[1] An early owner, a doctor, built a large bathhouse at the springs and renamed it White Sulphur Springs.[1] That springs was mainly used by miners from Mineral Hill. When Mineral Hill began to weaken, the business decelerated. The owner of the springs closed up shop in the mid-1870s. From May 1907 the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad Company and the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad stopped at a station in Hot Springs.[2][3]

There is now nothing left of the old town, but the hot springs remain, and Bailey's Hot Springs RV Park is open on the site as of January 2018.

References

  1. 1 2 ghosttowns.com. "Hot Springs". Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  2. ↑ Time Table #7, as Effective Dec. 5, 1907, Tonopah and Goldfield R.R. Co., Bullfrog-Goldfield R.R. Co.
  3. ↑ L.K. Strouse: Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, Volume 119. United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, 1927 (on-line).

Coordinates: 36°58′37″N 116°43′22″W / 36.97694°N 116.72278°W / 36.97694; -116.72278

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