1915 Map of Hawthorne

About this map

Hawthorne serves as the focal point of this Nevada landscape, situated south of the massive Walker Lake where the Southern Pacific System rail lines diverge. The survey illustrates a high-desert region defined by its mining-era settlements and early infrastructure, including numerous sites already noted as defunct such as Buckley Camp and Oro City. The rail network is critical here, with the Nevada and California RR connecting stops like Luning, Mina, and Sodaville. To the south, the Excelsior Mountains and the Candalaria Hills surround expansive alkali flats like Teels Marsh and Rhodes Salt Marsh. This territory, surveyed shortly after the turn of the century, reveals the isolation of remote outposts like Marietta and Belleville before modern highway development reorganized the Great Basin.