Southwest
Nevada
Clark

Nelson

Nelson is a census-designated place in , , United States. The community is in the Pacific Standard Time zone. The location of Nelson is in El Dorado Canyon, .
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  • Type: Hamlet with 22 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States
  • Also known as: “El Dorado”, “Eldorado”, “Nelson, Nevada”, and “Nelson, NV”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Techatticup Mine.

Memorial
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
, is a former gold mine, now a tourist attraction. It is located at an elevation of 2,477 feet, midway in El Dorado Canyon, in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Buster Falls and El Dorado City.

Locality
, now a ghost town, was a mining camp in El Dorado Canyon above Huse Spring and the in the Colorado Mining District during the time of the American Civil War.

Locality
, which is now a ghost town, was a mining camp in the Colorado Mining District at the mouth of January Wash at its confluence with El Dorado Canyon.

Locality
sometimes called Lucky Camp is a ghost town site in . It was within New Mexico Territory when founded in 1862. It was a mining camp in El Dorado Canyon in the Colorado Mining District in the 1860s.

Nelson

Latitude
35.70753° or 35° 42′ 27″ north
Longitude
-114.82662° or 114° 49′ 36″ west
Population
22
Elevation
2,976 feet (907 metres)
Open location code
8577P55F+29
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150962333
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5509049
Wiki­data ID
Q3473162
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Nelson” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Nelson”
  • Chinese: “奶路臣”
  • Chinese: “納爾遜”
  • Chinese: “纳尔逊”
  • Dutch: “Nelson”
  • French: “Nelson (Nevada)”
  • French: “Nelson”
  • German: “Nelson”
  • Gilaki: “نلسون (نوادا)”
  • Gilaki: “نلسون”
  • Irish: “Nelson”
  • Italian: “Nelson”
  • Ladin: “Nelson”
  • Navajo: “Béésh Łigaii Bikooh”
  • Persian: “نلسون”
  • Polish: “Nelson”
  • Portuguese: “Nelson”
  • Serbian: “Нелсон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nelson, Nevada”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nelson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نلسون، نوادا”
  • Spanish: “Nelson”
  • Swedish: “Nelson”
  • Tatar: “Нельсон”
  • Ukrainian: “Нельсон”
  • Volapük: “Nelson”
  • Welsh: “Nelson, Nevada‎”

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Localities in the Area

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Highlights include Black Hawk Mine and Eldorado Empire Mines.

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