Tonopah is an unincorporated town in, and the county seat of, Nye County, Nevada, United States. Nicknamed the Queen of the Silver Camps for its mining-rich history, it is now primarily a tourism-based resort city, notable for attractions like the Mizpah Hotel and the Clown Motel.
Central Tonopah from the south
Tonopah in 1913
Old Mizpah mine in 1980
Tonopah (Nevada) Meteorite, aka Quinn Canyon meteorite main mass. Weight 3,275 lbs. Field Museum photo.
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