White Pine County, Nevada |
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![]() This magnificent bull elk was seen near Ely |
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White Pine County is in east central Nevada with Utah to the east. Great Basin National Park is here. White Pine County contains 8,876 square miles of land and 21 square miles of water. The original county seat was Hamilton (site of a short-lived silver strike) but when a large fire burned in Hamilton in 1887, the county seat was moved to Ely. For many years the big business around here was open pit copper mining and smelting. These days, the mining has dropped off and the remaining mining companies have found that it's cheaper to ship the copper ore to Japan and have it smelted over there. |
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| White Pine County Related Pages: Great Basin National Park - Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest Cave Lake State Park - Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park Government Peak Wilderness - High Schells Wilderness - Currant Mountain Wilderness Red Mountain Wilderness - Mount Moriah Wilderness - Highland Ridge Wilderness Shellback Wilderness - Goshute Canyon Wilderness - White Pine Range Wilderness Bristlecone Wilderness - South Egan Range Wilderness - Mt. Grafton Wilderness Bald Mountain Wilderness - Becky Peak Wilderness Great Basin Scenic Byway - Loneliest Road in America (US 50) |
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| Photo of bull elk courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management Text is available for re-use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. |
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