Scotty's Junction, Nevada

37.297222222222 - 117.05416666667Koordinaten: 37 ° 17 ' 50 "N, 117 ° 3' 15 " W

Scotty's Junction is a settlement in Nye County, Nevada.

Location

Scotty's Junction - named as Scotty 's Castle in Death Valley National Park by Walter E. Scott - located at the junction of State Route 267 in the U.S. Highway 95 36 miles ( 58 km ) north of Beatty and 16 miles (26 km) south Lida Junction. The settlement is located in the Sarcobatus Flat to 1239 meters ( 4,065 ft) near the west of the Nellis Range.

Population

The settlement, which spreads along about 1.5 kilometers along the Highway 95, currently houses 11 residents. A majority of residents is employed in the allowed in Nye County prostitution, the brothel Shady Lady Ranch represents about half of the population. There are also in Scotty's Junction, a presently closed rest area and a campground that located here petrol station burned down.

History

The town was founded as a stop the short-lived Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad in the Sarcobatus Flat for the Bonnie Claire mines and about 7 miles (11 km) south of town in Bonnie Claire. The Tonopah -and- Tidewater Railroad acquired this company, the building materials for the construction of Scotty 's Castle were then transported from the railway station still in the Grapevine Canyon called Bonnie Claire depot. When dismantling the railway line, the thresholds were also brought to Scotty's Castle, and there used as firewood.

On August 1, 1999, was 11 km north of the epicenter of an earthquake of magnitude 5.6.

The Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act of 2000 guaranteed the transfer of an area of ​​11 km ² (2800 acres) near Scotty's Junction and water rights to approximately 460,000 cubic meters of the Timbisha.

• Location in Nevada
• Nye County
• Place in North America