Deep Hole

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Deep Hole is located on Highway 447 west of Gerlach near the Smoke Creek Desert road and Planet X Pottery. Deep Hole was founded by Ladue Vary in 1856 who created a stone building that still stands. (Vary went on to found Varyville).

Ingalls writes: "Deep Hole is at the north end of Smith (sic) Creek Desert, 115 miles north of Reno, nine miles northwest of Gerlach, on Western Pacific Railway, which is its telegraph, express and shipping station. It was named after several deep springs near by."

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See Also

  • Asa Merrill Fairfield, "Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California: Containing ...," p 89 (1916). Description of Vary searching for cattle stolen from Deep Hole. (Full text from Archive.org.)
  • GNIS Deep Hole Deep Hole Post Office, Deep Hole Spring and Deephole Ranch are other GNIS names located at the same location.