Mercury
Mercury is a closed village in Nye County, Nevada, United States, 5 miles north of U.S. Route 95 at a point 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. It is situated within the Nevada National Security Site and was constructed by the Atomic Energy Commission to house and service the staff of the test site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: closed city in Nye County, Nevada, United States
- Also known as: “Camp Mercury”, “Mercury, Nevada”, and “Mercury, NV”
- Postal code: 89023
Mercury
- Categories: town in the United States, unincorporated community in the United States, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Nye, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.65936° or 36° 39′ 34″ northLongitude
-115.99934° or 115° 59′ 58″ westElevation
3,789 feet (1,155 metres)IATA airport code
DRAUnited Nations Location Code
US DRAOpen location code
8586M252+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 150950369OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Mercury” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Mercury”
- Chechen: “Меркюри”
- Chinese: “Mercury”
- Chinese: “美國內華達州 默丘里鎮”
- Chinese: “墨丘利”
- Chinese: “默丘里”
- Dutch: “Mercury”
- French: “Mercury”
- German: “Camp Mercury”
- German: “Mercury”
- Hungarian: “Mercury”
- Irish: “Mercury”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mercury”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mercury”
- Persian: “مرکوری، نوادا”
- Persian: “مرکوری”
- Portuguese: “Mercury”
- Russian: “Меркури”
- Russian: “Меркьюри”
- South Azerbaijani: “مرکوری، نوادا”
- Spanish: “Mercury (Nevada)”
- Spanish: “Mercury”
- Swedish: “Mercury, Nevada”
- Swedish: “Mercury”
- Tatar: “Меркюри”
- Ukrainian: “Меркурій”
- Ukrainian: “Меркюрі”
- Vietnamese: “Mercury, Nevada”
- Vietnamese: “Mercury”
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