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.

"Passing south we to the Salt Marsh, where Adams takes out about 200 tons of salt annually. for which he finds a market in Sierra Valley. He obtains his salt by evaporation."<ref>N. A. Hummel, "General History and Resources of Washoe County, Nevada," 1888.

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." (1888)
  • In 1886, 20 votes were cast in the Salt Marsh precinct.
  • p. 19: "Passing south we come to the Salt Marsh where Adams takes out about 200 tons of salt annually for which he finds a market in Sierra Valley. He obtains his salt by evaporation. Sheep Head, Deep Hole and Round Hole Springs follow. Going southeast from Round Hole sixteen miles we reach Pyramid District."
• 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.