Gold Creek, Nevada

Gold Creek is an extinct town in Elko County, Nevada, United States.[1]

Historical marker for Gold Creek along Gold Creek Road, September 2014

History

A post office was established at Gold Creek in 1897, and remained in operation until 1929.[2][3] The community was named for gold placer deposits near the original town site.[4]

gollark: You CANNOT make a robot which needs NO maintenence.
gollark: > Feeding and maintaining human slaves costs a lot more than running an autonomous robot that only requires electronic energy, which is easily harvested by solar panelsBut it doesn't require electricity only, it requires parts to be replaced.
gollark: I mean, you can't effectively use slaves for anything beyond menial labour, because then they need to do thinking and have some autonomy and actually receive stuff beyond bare necessities.
gollark: Although many tasks don't need generalized robots as much as big motors or something.
gollark: On the other hand, modern robot-y systems need microprocessors, which are stupidly expensive and hard to make, and humans wouldn't.

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gold Creek (historical)
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gold Creek Post Office (historical)
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  4. Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 24.

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