Valmy, Nevada
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Valmy is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, Nevada, United States, named after the Battle of Valmy in France.{{cite web|title=Valmy: Nevada historical marker 167|url=http://www.nvshpo.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=262&Itemid=9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326110958/http://www.nvshpo.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=262&Itemid=9|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 26, 2012|work=Nevada State Historic Preservation Office|access-date=1 July 2011}} The Lone Tree gold-mining complex is located adjacent to I-80; mining ended there in 2007,[http://www.newmont.com/sites/default/files/288853.pdf Newmont 2007 financial and operating results]. though a small gold resource remains in place there.[http://www.newmont.com/sites/default/files/NEM_2010_Attributable_Reserves_and_NRM.pdf 2009 Reserves and Non-Reserve Mineralization] In 2021, Nevada Gold Mines sold the mine to i-80 Gold, who hope to process ore there.{{cite news |title=Production Increases for i-80 Gold |first=Adella |last=Harding| newspaper=Elko Daily Free Press |date=November 11, 2022 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116635102/production-increases-for-i-80-gold/ |access-date=January 16, 2023}}
The Marigold mine is located further south of I-80 and has been in production since 1989.{{cite news |title=Marigold Mine Starts Production |newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal |date=September 10, 1989 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116636243/marigold-mine-starts-production/ |access-date=January 16, 2023}}
Valmy is also home to the North Valmy Generating Station, jointly owned by NV Energy and Idaho Power.[http://www.nvenergy.com/company/energytopics/images/Valmy_Fact_Sheet.pdf North Valmy Generating Station]
Valmy has a post office, with the ZIP code 89438. As of the 2010 census, the community had a population of 37.{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US3278200| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212190900/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US3278200| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Valmy CDP, Nevada| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=January 25, 2013}}
History
Established in 1910 by the Southern Pacific Railroad as a section point, it became Valmy on March 24, 1915. The post office from Stone House, Nevada, was moved to Valmy at that time. In 1932 Eugene DiGrazia bought Valmy's gas station, store, post office and bus depot.{{cite news|title=Owner of Nevada town dies|newspaper=Las Vegas Review Journal|date=3 December 1990}}
Popular culture
In August 1977 Eric Meola shot photographs of Bruce Springsteen in Valmy, including one in front of DiGrazia's gas station. In 2010 one of the photographs became cover art for The Promise.{{cite news|last=Kirst|first=Sean|title=Eastwood native Eric Meola and Bruce Springsteen: A desert storm and 'The Promise'|url=http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/2010/11/meola_and_springsteen_a_desert.html|access-date=2 July 2011|newspaper=The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)|date=16 November 2010}}
Demographics
{{US Census population
|align=left|2020= 26
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}
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External links
- [http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/mm/mm97/mm97.htm#humboldt Major mines of Humboldt County] at Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
- [https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Lone+Tree+Mine Lone Tree Mine photo gallery]
- [http://www.valmyland.com/valmy.htm Valmy, Nevada]
{{Humboldt County, Nevada}}
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Category:Census-designated places in Nevada
Category:Census-designated places in Humboldt County, Nevada