Esmeralda County, Nevada

Esmeralda County is a county in the state of Nevada in the United States. In 2020, 729 people lived there. It was 54 less than 783 in 2010. The county seat is Goldfield. It is named after the word for "emerald" in Spanish and Portuguese.

History

Esmeralda County is one of the first counties of Nevada. It was established on November 25, 1861. The county seat used to be Aurora until 1883. After that, it was Hawthorne from 1883 until 1907. In 1907, the county got it's current seat. The author Mark Twain wrote the book Roughing It from 1870-71 about his time as a miner in Esmeralda.

Geography

According to the United States Census, the county has a total area of 9,295 square kilometers (3,589 square miles). Of this, 9,294 square kilometers (3,588 square miles) is land, and only 1 square kilometer (0 square miles), or 0.01%, is water. A very small part of Death Valley National Park is located in the southeast corner of the county.

Esmeralda County, Nevada Media

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  Southern Nevada Consolidated Telephone-Telegraph Company Building, in the Goldfield Historic District.

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  Aerial view of Fish Lake Valley, Nevada-California Border. View is generally to the northeast, towards the Silver Peak Range.

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  Boundary Peak, the highest point in both Esmeralda County and the state of Nevada, is in the Inyo National Forest

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  Wild Horse in Fish Lake Valley, 2013.

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  An abandoned building in Palmetto, an Esmeralda County ghost town