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Bullfrog is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located at the north end of the Amargosa Desert about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Beatty . Less than 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Bullfrog are the Bullfrog Hills and the ghost town of Rhyolite .
The trail's design links it with other landmarks in the Derry township, such as the Bullfrog Valley Park, Shank Park and the Hershey Medical Center. [2] It also connects the towns of Palmyra, Pennsylvania with Hummelstown, Pennsylvania through Derry Township. [3] The trail is wheelchair-accessible, with minimal grades.
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.
The Bullfrog mining district was located along the south margin of the hills. The original Bullfrog Mine is located on the south flank of Bullfrog Mountain to the west of Rhyolite, and now just inside the northeast corner of the Death Valley National Monument .
Pioneer is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.Beginning as a mining camp near the Mayflower and other gold mines in northern Bullfrog Hills, it became a formal town in 1908 and flourished briefly until fire destroyed much of its business district in 1909 and litigation delayed mining.
A 1987 attempt to stop the nuclear waste site resulted in the creation of Bullfrog County, Nevada, which was dissolved two years later. The county has several environmentally sensitive areas, including Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, the White River Valley, several Great Basin sky islands, and part of Death Valley National Park.
Bonnie Claire is a ghost town located in Nye County, Nevada. [1] The settlement is located on the edge of Sarcobatus Flat adjacent to Nevada State Route 267.The mines of Slate Ridge lie to the northwest and the northernmost spur of the Amargosa Range, the Grapevine Mountains, is just to the south of the townsite.
Bullfrog County was a county in the U.S. state of Nevada created by the Nevada Legislature in 1987. It comprised a 144-square-mile (370 km 2 ) area around Yucca Mountain enclosed by Nye County , from which it was created.