Manhattan, Nevada
| Manhattan, Nevada | |
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| Unincorporated town | |
Sign at the east entrance to Manhattan
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| Nickname(s): Town of New Beginnings | |
| Motto: Embracing a better Manhattan | |
| Coordinates: 38°32′20″N 117°04′30″W / 38.53889°N 117.07500°WCoordinates: 38°32′20″N 117°04′30″W / 38.53889°N 117.07500°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Nevada |
| County | Nye |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.28 sq mi (0.72 km2) |
| • Land | 0.28 sq mi (0.72 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 7,000 ft (2,000 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 124 |
| • Density | 450/sq mi (170/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific (PST) (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
Manhattan is an unincorporated town in Nye County, Nevada, located at the end of Nevada State Route 377 about 50 miles (80 km) north of Tonopah, the county seat.
It originally was founded in 1867 as part of the silver mining boom. George Wheeler found the district abandoned in 1871. Then, in 1905, as part of the gold boom when "4,000 people flood(ed) into the region". The Nye and Ormsby County Bank, the only stone structure to be built in the town, was erected in 1906, but a decline followed the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1907 depression.
The bank was forced to close. However, another boom in 1909 resulted in mining continuing into the late 1940s. Major mining operations opened and operated through the 1970s to the 1990s but production has relatively recently scaled back significantly.
The Big Smoky Valley is similar to many of the desert valleys in Nevada, characterized by flanking mountain ranges running north to south. Big Smoky Valley is bounded to the south by Lone Mountain, and the east and west by the Toquima and the Toiyabe Ranges, respectively. The valley floor consists primarily of alluvial fans composed of small poorly assorted gravels.
Meta-sedimentary and granitic wastes predominate the Manhattan and Kingston fans while quartz sands derived from granites, predominate in the axial part of the valley between Charnock Springs and Round Mountain and most of the steep slope adjacent to Lone Mountain. Grit derived from Tertiary lavas supplied by the southern part of the Toiyabe and Shoshone Ranges is also abundant and widely distributed.
Limestone, slate, schist, and quartzite aggregateing several thousand feet in thickness and ranging in age from lower Cambrian to Carboniferous are the oldest rocks found in this region. Although they have a wide range in age, no unconformity has been found between two successive formations. Since their deposition they have been extensively deformed, eroded, intruded by lavas, and largely covered by igneous bodies and sedimentary deposits. Originally they probably covered the entire region, but at present they are found over extensive areas only in the Toiyabe, Toquima, Silver Peak, and Lone Mountain ranges.
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