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Tonopah Army Air Field
Tonopah may refer to: * Tonopah, Arizona, a community * Tonopah, Nevada, a community * Tonopah Air Force Station, a Cold War radar station along with Las Vegas Air Force Station * Tonopah Basin, Central Basin and Range ecoregions around the Tonopah Playas * Tonopah Bombing Range, the 1940 World War II designation of the military region ** Tonopah Test Range, a nuclear test area SW of the Tonopah Bombing Range ** Tonopah Air Force Base, the 1949 main base for the bombing range ** Tonopah Army Air Field, the main base's name in World War II ** Tonopah Test Range Airport Tonopah Test Range Airport , at the Tonopah Test Range (Senior Trend project site PS-66) is southeast of Tonopah, Nevada, Tonopah, Nevada, and northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a major airfield with a runway, instrument approach faciliti ... * USS Tonopah, the ship renamed from Monitor USS Nevada (BM-8) in 1909 Railroads * Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad * Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad * Tonopah and T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonopah, Arizona
Tonopah is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western Maricopa County, Arizona, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, west of downtown Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix off Interstate 10 in Arizona, Interstate 10. The community is near the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, the largest power producer in the country, nuclear or otherwise. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of Tonopah was 23, down from 60 at the 2010 census. It is located on the Tonopah Desert. Many wells in Tonopah are warm, in the to range, and many are hot; to wells are common. Prior to being called Tonopah, the settlement was known as "Lone Peak". The area is also known to have been inhabited by groups of people for resource gathering, including the Hohokam, Patayan, and Yavapai. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 60 people living in the CDP. The population density was 1.13 people per square ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonopah, Nevada
Tonopah ( , Shoshoni language: Tonampaa) is an Unincorporated towns in Nevada, unincorporated town in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Nye County, Nevada, Nye County. Nicknamed the Queen of the Silver Camps for its mining-rich history, it is now primarily a tourism-based resort city, notable for attractions like the Mizpah Hotel and the Clown Motel. Tonopah is located at the junction of U.S. Routes U.S. Route 6 in Nevada, 6 and U.S. Route 95 in Nevada, 95, approximately midway between Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, Reno. In the United States Census 2010, 2010 census, the population was 2,478. The census-designated place (CDP) of Tonopah has a total area of , all land. History The American community began circa 1900 with the discovery of silver-rich ore by prospector Jim Butler. The legendary tale of discovery says that he went looking for a burro that had wandered off during the night and sought shelter near a rock outcropping. When Butler discovered the animal t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonopah Air Force Station
Tonopah Air Force Station (ADC ID: SM-164, NORAD ID: Z-164) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located south of Tonopah, Nevada. It was closed in 1970. History Tonopah Air Force Station was initially part of Phase II of the Air Defense Command Mobile Radar program. The Air Force approved this expansion of the Mobile Radar program on 23 October 1952. Radars in this network were designated "SM." The station became operational on 1 October 1956 when the 866th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was moved to the new station, and initially the station functioned as a Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) and warning station. As a GCI station, the squadron's role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on the unit's radar scopes. In 1957 the 866th AC&W Squadron activated an AN/MPS-7 radar and operated manually. In June 1961 the site was moved to another peak and joined the Semi Automatic Ground Environmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonopah Basin
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range in the western United States. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey. It is a temperate desert with hot, dry summers and snowy winters. The desert spans large portions of Nevada and Utah, and extends into eastern California. The desert is one of the four biologically defined deserts in North America, in addition to the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts. Basin and range topography characterizes the desert: wide valleys bordered by parallel mountain ranges generally oriented north–south. There are more than 33 peaks within the desert with summits higher than , but valleys in the region are also high, most with elevations above . The biological communities of the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevada Test And Training Range
The Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) is one of two military training areas at the Nellis Air Force Base Complex in Nevada and used by the United States Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base. The NTTR land area includes a "simulated Integrated Air Defense System", several individual ranges with 1200 targets, and 4 remote communication sites. The current NTTR area and the range's former areas have been used for aerial gunnery and bombing, for nuclear tests, as a proving ground and flight test area, for aircraft control and warning, and for Blue Flag, Green Flag, and Red Flag exercises. Geography The Nevada Test and Training Range land area is mostly Central Basin and Range ecoregion (cf. southernmost portion in the Mojave Desert), and smaller ecoregions (e.g., Tonopah Basin, Tonopah Playa, and Bald Mountain biomes) are within the area of numerous basin and range landforms of the NTTR. Landforms The NTTR is at the serpentine section of the Great Basin Divid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonopah Test Range
The Tonopah Test Range (TTR, also designated as Area 52) is a highly classified, restricted military installation of the United States Department of Defense, and United States Department of Energy ( nuclear stockpile stewardship) located about southeast of Tonopah, Nevada. It is part of the northern fringe of the Nellis Range, measuring . Tonopah Test Range is located about northwest of Groom Lake, the home of the Area 51 facility. Like the Groom Lake facility, Tonopah is a site of interest to conspiracy theorists, mostly for its use of experimental and classified aircraft. As such, it is not generally the focus of alien enthusiasts, unlike its neighbor. It is currently used for nuclear weapons stockpile reliability testing, research and development of fusing and firing systems, and testing nuclear weapon delivery systems. The airspace comprises restricted area R-4809 of the Nevada Test and Training Range and is often used for military training. Description The Tonopah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonopah Air Force Base
Tonopah Air Force Base (Tonopah Army Air Field in World War II) is a Formerly Used Defense Site (FUDS) in the USA that was a Tonopah Basin military installation until shortly after it was designated an Air Force Base in 1948. Two of the runways still in use are maintained by Nye County, Nevada; and World War II building foundations and three hangars of the base remain at the municipal Tonopah Airport. Background The Tonopah Mining District ( with Tonopah Manhattan Stage Route () was an area of the Silver mining in Nevada#Tonopah district, 1900-1921 silver rush, and in September 1939, GHQ Air Force considered improving the airdrome at Tonopah. After World War I, Nevada and other western inland states were surveyed by Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Sgt. William B. Whitefield for landing sites, and by "mid-1925 the Air Service possessed information on nearly thirty-five hundred landing places, including more than twenty-eight hundred emergency landing areas, in the United States." T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonopah Army Air Field
Tonopah may refer to: * Tonopah, Arizona, a community * Tonopah, Nevada, a community * Tonopah Air Force Station, a Cold War radar station along with Las Vegas Air Force Station * Tonopah Basin, Central Basin and Range ecoregions around the Tonopah Playas * Tonopah Bombing Range, the 1940 World War II designation of the military region ** Tonopah Test Range, a nuclear test area SW of the Tonopah Bombing Range ** Tonopah Air Force Base, the 1949 main base for the bombing range ** Tonopah Army Air Field, the main base's name in World War II ** Tonopah Test Range Airport Tonopah Test Range Airport , at the Tonopah Test Range (Senior Trend project site PS-66) is southeast of Tonopah, Nevada, Tonopah, Nevada, and northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a major airfield with a runway, instrument approach faciliti ... * USS Tonopah, the ship renamed from Monitor USS Nevada (BM-8) in 1909 Railroads * Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad * Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad * Tonopah and T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonopah Test Range Airport
Tonopah Test Range Airport , at the Tonopah Test Range (Senior Trend project site PS-66) is southeast of Tonopah, Nevada, Tonopah, Nevada, and northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a major airfield with a runway, instrument approach facilities, and nighttime illumination. The facility has over fifty hangars and an extensive support infrastructure. Overview Tonopah is controlled by the United States Air Force, USAF Air Combat Command. The known primary use of this airport is to shuttle government employees to the weapons test range from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas. The primary (paved) access to the facility is off of U.S. Route 6 at the north end of the airport. Dirt road access points also exist on the south and east sides of the range. The site is plainly visible from commercial airliners, which pass north of the base on transcontinental flights. History The Tonopah Range Airport first opened in 1957, supporting operations on the tes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Tonopah
Tonopah may refer to: * Tonopah, Arizona, a community * Tonopah, Nevada, a community * Tonopah Air Force Station, a Cold War radar station along with Las Vegas Air Force Station * Tonopah Basin, Central Basin and Range ecoregions around the Tonopah Playas * Tonopah Bombing Range, the 1940 World War II designation of the military region ** Tonopah Test Range, a nuclear test area SW of the Tonopah Bombing Range ** Tonopah Air Force Base, the 1949 main base for the bombing range ** Tonopah Army Air Field, the main base's name in World War II ** Tonopah Test Range Airport Tonopah Test Range Airport , at the Tonopah Test Range (Senior Trend project site PS-66) is southeast of Tonopah, Nevada, Tonopah, Nevada, and northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a major airfield with a runway, instrument approach faciliti ... * USS Tonopah, the ship renamed from Monitor USS Nevada (BM-8) in 1909 Railroads * Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad * Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad * Tonopah and Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Vegas And Tonopah Railroad
The Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad was a railroad built by William A. Clark that ran northwest from a connection with the mainline of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad at Las Vegas, Nevada to the gold mines at Goldfield, NV, Goldfield. The SPLA&SL railroad later became part of the Union Pacific Railroad and serves as their mainline between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. History In April 1905, Clark made a verbal agreement with Francis Marion Smith that Smith could build a rail line to his borax operations at Lila C connecting with the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad at Las Vegas. After Smith's men had already graded for tracks, his workers received a no-trespassing order that they were not allowed to connect with Clark's rail. Clark had apparently changed his mind, and subsequently, he laid his own rail on the line graded by Smith's men. In response, Smith started his own competing railroad, the Tono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonopah And Goldfield Railroad
The Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, a railroad of in length in the U.S. state of Nevada, offered point-to-point service between Mina and Goldfield, running over the Excelsior Mountains and parallel to the Monte Cristo Range. It operated from 1905 until 1947. Corporate history Growth Predecessors of the Tonopah and Goldfield (T&G) Railroad, including the Tonopah Railroad, began operations in 1903. The decade of the 1900s was a period of frenzied railroad-building in southwestern Nevada, with rich silver ore discovered at Tonopah in 1900 and gold-bearing quartz at Goldfield in 1902. In addition, silver was struck at Silver Peak. As the entire region was then served by nothing but stagecoaches, an infrastructure was quickly begun to serve what was a fast-growing network of precious-metal mines and miners. The first predecessor of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, the Tonopah Railroad (built 1903–1904), was a narrow gauge line from what was then called ''Sodaville Junctio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
