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Buffalo Meadows "is a flat located east of the [[Smoke Creek|Smoke Creek Desert]] and north of Twin Mountain" (Carson) | Buffalo Meadows "is a flat located east of the [[Smoke Creek|Smoke Creek Desert]] and north of Twin Mountain" (Carson) | ||
=== Links === | === Place Name Links === | ||
* Helen S. Carson, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=BixwbIM7ZvAC&lpg=PA62&ots=KPFvYjg_u9&dq=Buffalo%20meadows%20Nevada&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q=Buffalo%20meadows%20Nevada&f=false Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary] | * Helen S. Carson, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=BixwbIM7ZvAC&lpg=PA62&ots=KPFvYjg_u9&dq=Buffalo%20meadows%20Nevada&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q=Buffalo%20meadows%20Nevada&f=false Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary] | ||
* George R. Stewart, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1497384 Western Folklore,] Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr., 1948), p. 174 quotes a local as saying that the name came from an Indian by the same name. The local qualified his statement with saying that there was an old Indian with that name and that he supposes that the area was named after the Indian. | |||
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:854811 GNIS] cites "Paher, Stanley W. Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1970, 492 pp. Gives historical background for mining towns and camps in Nevada. p154" | |||
=== History Links === | |||
* [http://files.usgwarchives.net/nv/washoe/business/bufmeadows1907.txt Buffalo Meadows, Washoe Co., NV - 1907-1908 Business Directory] | * [http://files.usgwarchives.net/nv/washoe/business/bufmeadows1907.txt Buffalo Meadows, Washoe Co., NV - 1907-1908 Business Directory] | ||
* Description of Buffalo Springs Salt Works on page 232 of Israel Cook Russell, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=xrbkAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA285&ots=sSKpGAxXvN&dq=Buffalo%20salt%20works%20nevada&pg=PA232#v=onepage&q=Buffalo%20salt%20works%20nevada&f=false Sketch of the geological history of Lake Lahontan, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada]," 1885 | * Description of Buffalo Springs Salt Works on page 232 of Israel Cook Russell, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=xrbkAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA285&ots=sSKpGAxXvN&dq=Buffalo%20salt%20works%20nevada&pg=PA232#v=onepage&q=Buffalo%20salt%20works%20nevada&f=false Sketch of the geological history of Lake Lahontan, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada]," 1885 | ||
* [ftp://nas.library.unr.edu/keck/mining/SCANS/0160/01600009.pdf Survey of minerals along the WP that discusses the Buffalo Salt Works] | |||
* [http://knowledgecenter.unr.edu/materials/specoll/photodesc.aspx?AccNo=UNRS-P2007-01 Description UNR Image of Buffalo Salt Works] | |||
* [http://www.nevadaobserver.com/History%20Of%20Washoe%20County%20(1912).htm THE HISTORY OF NEVADA, CHAPTER LVIII., WASHOE COUNTY, BY MAJOR G. W. INGALLS. From The History of Nevada, edited by Sam P. Davis, vol. II (1912)] says: | |||
** "Buffalo Meadows—A postoffice 100 miles north of Reno on Western Pacific Railway. Is centre of a stock raising district. Has a public school and two hotels. Was established in 1865." | |||
=== Maps === | |||
* [http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=40.7481&lon=-119.836&datum=nad27&u=4&layer=DRG&size=l&s=50 http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=40.7481&lon=-119.836&datum=nad27&u=4&layer=DRG&size=l&s=50] | * [http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=40.7481&lon=-119.836&datum=nad27&u=4&layer=DRG&size=l&s=50 http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=40.7481&lon=-119.836&datum=nad27&u=4&layer=DRG&size=l&s=50] | ||
* [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=40.7484,-119.8346&spn=0.045452,0.11467&z=14 http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=40.7484,-119.8346&spn=0.045452,0.11467&z=14] | * [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=40.7484,-119.8346&spn=0.045452,0.11467&z=14 http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=40.7484,-119.8346&spn=0.045452,0.11467&z=14] | ||
* [http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?PgSrh:NavLon=-119.8346&PgSrh:NavLat=40.7484 http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?PgSrh:NavLon=-119.8346&PgSrh:NavLat=40.7484] | * [http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?PgSrh:NavLon=-119.8346&PgSrh:NavLat=40.7484 http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?PgSrh:NavLon=-119.8346&PgSrh:NavLat=40.7484] | ||
Revision as of 00:53, 27 December 2012
Buffalo Meadows "is a flat located east of the Smoke Creek Desert and north of Twin Mountain" (Carson)
Place Name Links
- Helen S. Carson, "Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary
- George R. Stewart, Western Folklore, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr., 1948), p. 174 quotes a local as saying that the name came from an Indian by the same name. The local qualified his statement with saying that there was an old Indian with that name and that he supposes that the area was named after the Indian.
- GNIS cites "Paher, Stanley W. Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1970, 492 pp. Gives historical background for mining towns and camps in Nevada. p154"
History Links
- Buffalo Meadows, Washoe Co., NV - 1907-1908 Business Directory
- Description of Buffalo Springs Salt Works on page 232 of Israel Cook Russell, "Sketch of the geological history of Lake Lahontan, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada," 1885
- Survey of minerals along the WP that discusses the Buffalo Salt Works
- Description UNR Image of Buffalo Salt Works
- THE HISTORY OF NEVADA, CHAPTER LVIII., WASHOE COUNTY, BY MAJOR G. W. INGALLS. From The History of Nevada, edited by Sam P. Davis, vol. II (1912) says:
- "Buffalo Meadows—A postoffice 100 miles north of Reno on Western Pacific Railway. Is centre of a stock raising district. Has a public school and two hotels. Was established in 1865."