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Tacoma, on secondary road 233, about 15 miles northeast of Montello, was a railway depot near the Utah border. It was a maintenance stop and shipping point for the Central Nevada Railway during the silver boom, and had about 100 residents. In the early 1930s Montello became the important railway stop, and Tacoma was abandoned. Today, little remains except garbage, old glass and some foundations. It is a true Elko County ghost town.
Located on a secondary road just northeast of Highway 375, the Extraterrestrial Highway, and east of Rachel.
Located on secondary road 789, near the junction of Highway 226, it has a few original buildings, but is an Elko County ghost town. From 1870 to 1890 mines produced $40,000,000 in silver and at one time, the town's population reached four thousand people, split almost equally between whites and Chinese, though it was considered untamed as any camp.