Bonnie Claire
Coordinates: 37 ° 13 '36 " N , 117 ° 7' 16" W.
Bonnie Claire is a ghost town in Nye County in the state of Nevada .
location
Bonnie Claire is located on the edge of Sarcobatus Flat near Nevada State Route 267 not far northeast of the state line with California and Death Valley National Park , which is about 16 miles (25 kilometers) away. The nearest inhabited area is Scotty's Junction on US Highway 95 , which is about 7 miles to the northeast.
history
Already in the 1880s was at one as Throp's Wells a known location ore mill to process the three mines coming on Gold Mountain about 10 km northern ore built. The plant was acquired in 1900 by the Bonnie Claire Bullfrog Mining Company, which also built the Bonnie Claire ore mill in 1904 for processing ore from the entire district. The settlement initially remained insignificant, only when the connection to the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad reached the place still called Throp in September 1906 , the boom began. The station of the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad was called Montana Station , but this name met with little approval from the local residents and so the village was named Bonnie Claire in October 1906 . In the following years the town experienced a brief boom, but mining continued in the area. When the dismantling of the railway line began in 1928, Bonnie Clare was abandoned, ore mining was briefly revived in the area from 1940 to 1954, and the village has been deserted since then.
An airfield was created near the town in the 1940s , but it was hardly used and abandoned a few years later.