Birch is a ghost town in
Eureka County, in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...
.
Birch is located to the west of the
Diamond Mountains, 26 miles northeast of
Eureka
Eureka often refers to:
* Eureka (word), a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes
* Eureka effect, the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem
Eureka or Ureka may also refer to:
History
* Eureka Rebellion, an 1854 g ...
.
History
The community was named after
James E. Birch, a stagecoach line entrepreneur.
References
External links
Birch
(ghosttowns.com)
Ghost towns in Eureka County, Nevada
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