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Tonopah
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census-designated place in and county seat of Nye County, Nevada, United States
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Vinony's link graph records 528 inbound references to Tonopah, and connects out to race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Nevada and Las Vegas.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NV.
It sits within the topics 1900 establishments in Nevada, Anti-Chinese violence in the United States and Census-designated places in Nye County, Nevada.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Founded
- 1900 ; 126 years ago ( 1900 )
- Named after
- Shoshoni language
- Senate
- Scott Hammond ( R )
- Assembly
- Gregory Hafen II ( R )
- U s congress
- Steven Horsford ( D )
- Total
- 9.26 sq mi (23.98 km )
- Land
- 9.26 sq mi (23.98 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 6,047 ft (1,843 m)
- Density
- 235.4/sq mi (90.87/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 (PST)
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 (PDT)
- Fips code
- 32-73600
- Gnis feature id
- 0845985
- Website
- http://www.tonopahnevada.com/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Tonopah
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Nye County
- Population
- 2179
- Area
- 42.071999
- Elevation
- 1843
- Capital of
- Nye County
- Official website
- www.tonopahnevada.com
- Image
- 2013-09-19 12 59 58 View of downtown Tonopah, Nevada from the southwest.jpg
- Households
- 1193
- Dialing code
- 775
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- Commons category
- Tonopah, Nevada
- topic's main category
- Category:Tonopah, Nevada
- postal code
- 89049
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 25266
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Encyclopedic overview
Tonopah (/ˈtoʊnəˌpɑː/ TOHN-ə-pah, Shoshoni language: Tonampaa) is an unincorporated town in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Nye County. 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.
Tonopah is located at the junction of U.S. Routes 6 and 95, approximately midway between Las Vegas and Reno. In the 2020 census, the population was 2,179. The census-designated place (CDP) of Tonopah has a total area of 16.2 square miles (42 km), all land.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tonopah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.