Goldfield can be seen as a setting in the original Vanishing Point and even the post-apocalyptic backdrop of Cherry 2000. The streets of Goldfield are lined with high rise buildings and crumbling ruins that attest to a city that was once the largest in the state. Goldfield contributes less than 300 people to the total population of Esmeralda County and is the county seat despite no longer being incorporated. To qualify how weird Goldfield is you have to look at the population of Esmeralda County which is about 800. By 1919 all the large mining companies had moved out and by 1923 a large portion of Goldfield was destroyed in a fire. By 1910 the mines of Goldfield were already in decline and the city had dropped to an approximate population of about 5,000.
Goldfield became the county seat of Esmeralda County in 1907 which it took from the previous seat of Hawthorne (the original seat was Aurora which was once thought to be in California which is one of the weirdest surveying stories I've ever heard). Goldfield was a hugely successful boom town which apparently reached a population of 20,000 by 1906 which would have made it the largest city at the time in Nevada. Goldfield was founded back in 1902 after mining claims were struck. The crown jewel of all the town sites I checked out is Goldfield which is still the county seat of Esmeralda County 27 miles south of Tonopah on US 95.
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