Sulphur, Nevada, is a

ghost town Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to: * Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned Film and television * Ghost Town (1936 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser * Ghost Town (1956 film), ''Ghost Town'' ...

in Humboldt County, Nevada that was a Feather River Route station in the Black Rock Desert along the

Kamma Mountains The Kamma Mountains are a mountain range in Pershing County and Humboldt County, Nevada. The ghost town and railroad siding at Sulphur, Nevada is on the west side of the Kamma Mountains at the eastern edge of the Black Rock Desert playa. The K ...

History

A post office was in operation at Sulphur intermittently between 1899 and 1953. The community was named for deposits of

sulphur Sulfur (or sulphur in British English) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula ...

near the original town site. 1930 D&RGW WP

References

Black Rock Desert Ghost towns in Humboldt County, Nevada {{HumboldtCountyNV-geo-stub