Esmeralda County Repository Oversight Program

Goldfield was at one time the largest city in Nevada. Goldfield had a railroad that connected into Las Vegas. Between 1903 and 1940, a total of $86,765,044 in metals was produced in and around the Goldfield mining district. Almost as quickly as this boomtown began, the Goldfield mining boom began its inevitable downward spiral. Mines were closed and abandoned as quickly as they had opened. As the work disappeared, so did the miners and with them the business owners. Today, the once thriving population Goldfield is reduced to some 574 residents, with only 1,500 people living in all of Esmeralda County. The United States Census designates the entire County as rural.

Aerial veiw of Goldfield, Nevada