Rhyolite, Nevada
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Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park.
Ruins of the Cook Bank building in Rhyolite, Nevada
Rhyolite Mercantile, a general store built in 1906 that burned to the ground in September 2014 after being hit by lightning (image circa 2007).
The town's former train station (Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad) as it appeared in 2011
Amargosa Desert and Bullfrog Hills near Rhyolite
Nye County, Nevada
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Nye County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,591. Its county seat is Tonopah. At 18,159 square miles (47,030 km2), Nye is Nevada's largest county by area and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States, behind Coconino County of Arizona and San Bernardino County of California.
Nye County Courthouse in Tonopah
2017 Reveille Wild Horse Release by BLM, about 50 miles east of Tonopah and 12 miles south of Warm Springs, Nevada
Gold specimen from the Round Mountain Gold Mine
Road from Carrara, Nevada, towards the marble quarry in the background