TOKOP
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NAME: Tokop COUNTY: Esmeralda ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Warm to hot in summer, cool to snowy in winter. BEST TIME TO VISIT: Late spring, summer, autumn |
COMMENTS:
Good views from townsite, better from nearby top of Tokop at communications site. REMAINS: Collapsed and semi collapsed wooden structures, a few mine shafts and tunnels. |
| Tokop was a minor community in the desert region at the extreme northern Death Valley region, a sparsely settled countryside punctuated then by only dying Stateline and Oriental. Sporadic mining began in the 1890s. A stage station was established early in the first decade of 1900. As more prospectors scoured the countryside lured on by the booms of nearby Goldfield and later Rhyolite, men found large quantities of low grade gold ore on top of this wind swept mountain. However, no ore was mined in sufficient quantities to warrant a town to be built. Today only fallen ruins of rotting lumber shacks dot the top of Tokop. Submitted by: David A. Wright |
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