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THE PLACE NAMES A.UIIO'ITS. ABBOTTS FORK, ,,~. yon heading on the west slope of the Bristol Range, about one mile northwest of Stampede Gap in Lincoln County, commemorates J. W. Abbott, an early settler in the area. ABBOTTSVILLE (Clark) was the name for land on which the AT and SF RR built the terminal of the former Barnwell and Searchlight branch line in 1907. Local objection to the establishment of the terminal on this land about a mile west of Searchlight, owned by the Searchlight Terminal Townsite Company , caused the citizens to apply the name derisively for F. J. Abbott, the managing director of the company (WA; DM). ACKLER CREEK (Elko). The name of this mountain stream, which rises on the northwest slope of the East Humboldt Range and flows generally northwestward into Starr Valley, commemorates George Ackler, who settled on the creek after serving at Fort Halleck (EP, p. 7; NK 11-12). ACME (Mineral). ACME MINING DISTRICT , also called Fitting and Kincaid, is on the southeast slope and end of the Gillis Range, four miles north of ACME TANK, formerly a siding on the SP RR (VPG, p. 109). Kincaid may be the oldest name of the mining district, since a location of this name was on Martinez HiIl in old Esmeralda County from which Mineral County was created in 1911 (SM, 1867, p. 36). Both names, ACME and Kincaid (also spelled Kinkaid), were shifted from the mining district to become designations for sidings on the Nand· C RR when the narrow-gauge C and C RR was purchased by the SP RR in 1900 (GHK, V&T, p. 19; NJ 11-4). The station name on the C and C RR had been spelled still a third way Kinkead. The two locations between Thome and Luning are now on the Mina Branch of the Salt Lake Division of the SP RR (Haw. Quad.; T75). ACOMA (Lincoln). The mining camp so denoted was lively in the early 1900s, enjoying a boom through the activities of the Utah and Eastern Copper Company in the spring of 1904 (DM). The camp was served by the old Clark Road, or the SPLA and SL RR, built in 1905 and purchased by the UP RR. ACOMA station is twenty-six miles east of Caliente in the eastern portion of the county (NJ 11-9). The name was transferred probably from some older settlement, such as that in Valencia County, New Mexico, and means ako, "white rock" and rna, "people" or "people of the white rock," in the Keres Indian language (Pearce, p. 2). ACOMA post office, with one interruption (1908-1909), served the area from April 29, 1905, to November 15, 1913, when it was moved to Caliente (FTM, p. I). ACTON (Clark). This popular station name was applied by the builders of the SPLA and SL RR to the first station north of Moapa. The station was abandoned by the UP RR in 1949 (OG, p. 1257; WA). ADAMS PEAK (Humboldt). Charles Adams, who founded a colony in Paradise Valley on May 10, 1865, is commemorated by this peak in the Osgood Mountains in southeast Humboldt County (SPD, p. 171). Adam is a variant spelling (GHM, HU I). ADAMS RIVER. See VIRGIN. ADAVEN. The name, Nevada spelled backwards , was applied to a post office of Elko County, established on January 11, 1916, by an order rescinded in June, 1916 (FTM, p. 1). A small settlement of Nye County, lying near the eastern edge of the Nevada National Forest and dating from the 1870s (RC, p. 36), was served by a post office so denoted from May 1, 1939, to November 30, 1953 (FTM, p. 1). A Lincoln County settlement of this name is northwest of Hiko (WA). ADELAIDE (Humboldt). A mining camp which flourished at the turn of the century as a result of the purchase of the ADELAIDE MINE in 1897 by the Glasgow and Western Exploration Company (Census, 1900; DM). The camp took its name from the mining district organized in 1866 on the east slope of the Sonoma Range and south of Gol- 34 NEVADA PLACE NAMES conda. The district was named for an early woman settler, but is now better known as Gold Run (VPG, p. 72). ADOBE. Features are so named for the alluvial or playa clay in a region. ADOBE FLAT (Pershing) forms a portion of Granite Springs Valley, lying west of the Trinity Range. A settlement of the 1860s in that portion of Humboldt County from...

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