Rhyolite, Nevada

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Rhyolite, Nevada is a famous early-20th-century ghost town in the Nevada desert known for its well-preserved ruins and status as a popular historic and tourist site.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ghost town
unincorporated community
boomPeriod 1905
country United States of America
surface form: United States
county Nye County
surface form: Nye County, Nevada
currentStatus historic site
tourist attraction
declineBegan 1907
economicBasis gold mining
elevation approximately 1100 meters
approximately 3600 feet
featuredIn films
photography
founded 1904
hadInfrastructure electricity
newspapers
opera house
stock exchange
telephone service
water system
hasAttraction Cook Bank Building ruins
Goldwell Open Air Museum
Rhyolite school ruins
Rhyolite train depot
Tom Kelly Bottle House
hasRuinsOf bank building
bottle house
general store
jail
school building
train depot
knownFor early 20th-century mining boomtown history
well-preserved ruins
largelyAbandonedBy 1916
locatedIn Bullfrog Hills
locatedInDesert Mojave Desert
locatedNear Beatty, Nevada
Death Valley National Park (partial)
surface form: Death Valley National Park
managedBy U.S. Bureau of Land Management
surface form: Bureau of Land Management
namedAfter rhyolite
nearMine Montgomery-Shoshone Mine
partOf Nevada ghost towns
populationPeak several thousand residents
populationPeakYearApprox 1907
servedByRailroad Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad
state Nevada
timeZone Pacific Time Zone

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Beatty, Nevada nearbyHistoricSite Rhyolite, Nevada
Bullfrog Hills associatedWith Rhyolite, Nevada
Bullfrog Hills hasNearbyGhostTown Rhyolite, Nevada
Bullfrog mining district near Rhyolite, Nevada
Bullfrog mining district spurredGrowthOf Rhyolite, Nevada
Bullfrog mining district hasGhostTowns Rhyolite, Nevada