Elgin is a ghost town

Ghost town

A ghost town is an abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters...

 located between Caliente

Caliente, Nevada

Caliente , formerly known as Culverwell and Calientes is a town in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States. Its elevation is 4,300 feet . The population was 1,123 at the 2000 census...

 and Carp

Carp, Nevada

Carp, Nevada is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States located south of Caliente. It sits on the Meadow Valley Wash, which empties into Lake Mead....

, Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

. Originally a railroad town, it is now the home of a one-room school

One-room school

One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In most rural and small town schools, all of the students met in a single room...

house, which has been in use from 1922 to 1967. The schoolhouse is now a museum with an apple

Apple

The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family . It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans. Apple grow on small, deciduous trees that blossom in the spring...

 orchard nearby and was declared a State Historic Site in 2005.

As of May 2008, the State Historic Site is permanently closed due to the damage to the only road leading to the site (SR 317), caused by flooding in 2005.

Elgin is located on the eastern banks of the Meadow Valley Wash

Meadow Valley Wash

The Meadow Valley Wash is a southern Nevada stream draining the Meadow Watershed that is bordered on 3 sides by the Great Basin Divide. The wash's Lincoln County headpoint is in the Wilson Creek Range, and the wash includes 2 upper confluences . Panaca is along the upper wash, and downstream of...

 off of Nevada State Route 317

Nevada State Route 317

State Route 317 is a state highway in Lincoln County, Nevada, USA. It connects the ghost town of Elgin north to U.S. Route 93 in the city of Caliente.-History:...

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External links

• Map of Elgin, from Google
• Ghost Towns listing for Elgin
• Nevada State Parks listing