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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 Intersta ...

, a community *

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 hi ...

, a community *

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 init ...

, a Cold War radar station along with Las Vegas Air Force Station *

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 ...

, 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 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 ...

, a nuclear test area SW of the Tonopah Bombing Range **

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 ...

, the 1949 main base for the bombing range **

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 ...

, 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 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 ...

, the ship renamed from Monitor USS Nevada (BM-8) in 1909

Railroads

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, ...

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 fro ...

Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad was a former class II railroad that served eastern California and southwestern Nevada. The railroad was built mainly to haul borax from Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company mines located just eas ...

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