Salt Marsh

Salt Marsh is a former settlement located on the west side of the Smoke Creek Desert, near the Parker Reservoirs.

Salt Marsh and the Buffalo Salt Works are likely the same place.

References

• GNIS
  • Citation: 'Nevada': National Map Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, no date (map states it uses data from the 1920 census, and the acquisition data by the Nevada Historical Society was 1923). Full color map showing railroads, mountains, roads, communities, and springs, at scale of 1 inch=11 miles.
  • Variant: "Salt Marsh Station". Citation: "U.S. Department of the Interior, General Land Office 'Map of the State of Nevada,' Washington, D.C., 1903, scale 1 inch=12 miles. Compiled from the official records of the GLO and other sources, under the direction of Frank Bond, Chief, Drafting Division, GLO.
• "General history and resources of Washoe County, Nevada, published under the auspices of the Nevada Educational Association." In 1886, 20 votes were cast in the Salt Marsh precinct.
• 1896 Post Route Map shows Salt Marsh (n.o.)
• Township 31 North -- Range 20 East -- Sheet 1 (T31NR20E.1) shows Salt Marsh in sections 17 and 20 with the the names "I. Goodm?in and J.B. Winters".
• Township 31 North -- Range 20 East -- Sheet 2 (T31NR20E.2) shows two places named Salt Marsh one in section 7 and 18 (near the Parker Reservoirs and the other in sections 17, 18, 19 & 20.