Scotty's Junction, Nevada
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Nye County, Nevada
-National protected areas:* Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge* Death Valley National Park * Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest * Spring Mountains National Recreation Area -Demographics:...
where State Route 267
Nevada State Route 267
State Route 267 is a state highway in Nevada, USA. Known as Scotty's Castle Road, the highway connects Death Valley National Park to U.S. Route 95. The route was previously designated State Route 72.-Route description:...
meets with U.S. Route 95. It is named after Walter E. Scott (aka Death Valley Scotty, of nearby Scotty's Castle
Scotty's Castle
Scotty's Castle is a two-story Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style villa located in the Grapevine Mountains of northern Death Valley in Death Valley National Park, California, U.S.. It is also known as Death Valley Ranch...
fame).
Nevada Public Radio
Nevada Public Radio
Nevada Public Radio was founded in 1980 as a public corporation to operate publicly funded radio in Nevada. NPR operates 5 stations in Nevada, 1 station in Utah and 5 retransmitters.-History:...
maintains translator station K201BF in the area, retransmitting KNPR in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
on 88.1 FM.
Eleven people live in Scotty's Junction. A brothel (the "Shady Lady") and an old truck stop/campground are the only local businesses. Those traveling the area would be well advised to gas up before arriving, as the gas station burned down and is now just another scattered derelict building.
History
Scotty's Junction was originally a stop on the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (BGR) at Sarcobatus Flats/Tolicha for the Bonnie Claire Mines and the town of Bonnie Claire. The BGR was a short-lived railroad and it along with the Las Vegas and Tonopah RailroadLas Vegas and Tonopah Railroad
The Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad was a 197.9 mile railroad built by William A. Clark that ran northwest from a connection with the mainline of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad at Las Vegas, Nevada to the gold mines at Goldfield...
(LV&T) were acquired by the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad
The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, the T&T, was a class II railroad extending through remote reaches of the Mojave Desert from the Santa Fe Railway railhead at Ludlow, California, through Death Valley and Amargosa Valley, terminating at the Mining towns of Tonopah and Goldfield in the Great Basin...
(T&T) and combined for the shortest route. Supplies to build Scotty's Castle were trucked from the Bonnie Claire Depot to the castle site. In fact, the last delivery this train would ever make would be construction supplies for Scotty's Castle, the tracks literally torn up and scrapped after this last delivery and the ties taken to the castle to be used for firewood.
The Scotty's Junction Earthquake of August 1, 1999, was a 5.6 magnitude temblor
Earthquake
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time...
centered 7 miles (11.3 km) to the north.
The Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act of 2000 provides for transfer to the Timbisha
Timbisha
The Timbisha are a Native American tribe federally recognized as the Death Valley Timbisha Shoshone Band of California. They are known as the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe and are located in south central California, near the Nevada border.-History:The Timbisha have lived in the Death Valley region of...
tribe of 2800 acres (11 km³) of land and an annual 375.5 acre.ft of ground water around Scotty's Junction.