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  Red Top
MAP

39.465000, -118.123611

VISITED 10-14-2001
DIRECTIONS

From Fallon, US 50 East for 40 miles, then 12.3 miles north on Dixie Valley Road (SR121) Proceed east into Red Top Gulch for 3 miles.

WHAT WAS

More of a location than a town, Red Top was platted but never actually progressed past a "tent city." Ore deposits gave out before anything substantial could take place. An offshoot of the Wonder boom.

Townsite plats of Red Top and Crystal were presented and approved by the board. The former townsite is situated in the Wonder district, and the latter in township 21, range 38, on the east side of the Clan Alpine range of mountains, about fifteen miels from the Lander county line.
-Churchill Standard, November 10, 1906

POST OFFICE

None

NEWSPAPER None
WHAT IS

Located in Red Top Gulch due south of Victor, the site is fairly unremarkable. There are no structures, nor any sign that structures ever existed. The only sign of previous habitation are the many broken bottles, cans, and assorted debris that have collected in the small gullies, ravines, and washes in the area.

 
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