Winnemucca

Winnemucca is a small city in that got its start as a station on the first transcontinental railroad. It's now a hub for mining, freight traffic, and other activity in , and it also has enough to pique a visitor's interest: mountain landscapes, casinos, vestiges of the Old West, and a proud Basque heritage.
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  • Type: City with 8,950 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Humboldt County, Nevada, United States
  • Also known as: City of Winnemucca”, “Winnemucca, Nevada”, and “Winnemucca, NV
  • Postal codes: 89445 and 89446

Places of Interest

Highlights include Winnemucca station and Humboldt River Bridge.

Railway station
is an Amtrak train station in Winnemucca, Nevada. It is served by one daily train in each direction on the California Zephyr.

Bridge
The is a concrete arch bridge across the in Winnemucca, Nevada, United States, that was built in 1910. It is 130 feet long and was the first reinforced concrete archdeck bridge built in the county.

Restaurant
The , at 94 W. Railroad St. in Winnemucca, Nevada, was built in 1913. It is a historic hotel building, known also as Lafayette Hotel Annex and as Roman Tavern, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Winnemucca

Latitude
40.9724° or 40° 58′ 21″ north
Longitude
-117.7348° or 117° 44′ 5″ west
Population
8,950
Elevation
4,295 feet (1,309 metres)
IATA airport code
WMC
United Nations Location Code
US WMC
Open location code
85G4X7C8+X3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150953992
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5710360
Wiki­data ID
Q983426
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Winnemucca” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: وينيموكا
  • Basque: Winnemucca
  • Bulgarian: Уинемъка
  • Catalan: Winnemucca
  • Cebuano: Winnemucca
  • Chechen: Виннемакка
  • Chinese: Winnemucca
  • Chinese: 温尼马卡
  • Chinese: 溫尼馬卡
  • Czech: Winnemucca
  • Dagbani: Winnemucca
  • Danish: Winnemucca
  • Dutch: Winnemucca
  • Egyptian Arabic: وينيموكا
  • French: Winnemucca
  • German: Winnemucca
  • Gilaki: وینموکا (نوادا)
  • Gilaki: وینموکا
  • Haitian: Winnemucca, Nevada
  • Haitian: Winnemucca
  • Hebrew: וינמאקה
  • Hungarian: Winnemucca
  • Irish: Winnemucca
  • Italian: Winnemucca
  • Japanese: ウィネマカ
  • Japanese: ウィネマッカ
  • Kazakh: Vïnnemwkka
  • Kazakh: Виннемукка
  • Kazakh: ۆىيننەمۋككا
  • Kirghiz: Виннемукка
  • Korean: 위너머카
  • Ladin: Winnemucca
  • Malagasy: Winnemucca, Nevada
  • Malagasy: Winnemucca
  • Malayalam: വിന്നെമുക്ക
  • Mazanderani: وینموکا (نوادا)
  • Mazanderani: وینموکا
  • Min Nan Chinese: Winnemucca
  • Navajo: Kélchíłaʼí
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Winnemucca
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Winnemucca
  • Persian: وینموکا، نوادا
  • Persian: وینموکا
  • Polish: Winnemucca
  • Portuguese: Winnemucca
  • Russian: Уиннемакка
  • Serbian: Винемака
  • Serbo-Croatian: Winnemucca, Nevada
  • Serbo-Croatian: Winnemucca
  • Slovak: Winnemucca
  • Slovenian: Winnemucca
  • South Azerbaijani: وینموککا، نوادا
  • Spanish: Winnemucca (Nevada)
  • Spanish: Winnemucca
  • Swedish: Winnemucca, Nevada
  • Swedish: Winnemucca
  • Tatar: Виннемакка
  • Turkish: Winnemucca, Nevada
  • Turkish: Winnemucca
  • Ukrainian: Віннемакка
  • Urdu: ونیموکا، نیواڈا
  • Urdu: ونیموکا
  • Uzbek: Winnemucca
  • Vietnamese: Winnemucca, Nevada
  • Vietnamese: Winnemucca
  • Volapük: Winnemucca
  • Waray (Philippines): Winnemucca, Nevada
  • Waray (Philippines): Winnemucca

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Winnemucca”. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.