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] Date Posted:00:28:19 09/25/09 Fri In reply to:
Wes
's message, "Re: Nevada Place Names" on 11:29:41 09/23/09 Wed
>>Question: where is Shelby County vaguely supposed to
>>be, anyway?
>
>About 50 miles or so from Beatty, I guess -- I'm not
>sure which direction, though! Roughly the same thing
>as forty miles from Forty Mile. I don't know a whole
>lot about Nevada geography, so I made stuff up
50 miles from Beatty, eh? I suppose that makes some sort of sense, though it couldn't be west; Beatty pretty close to the California border. Probably the directions that would make most sense are north or east. :)
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Date Posted:23:28:11 11/06/09 Fri
>>>Question: where is Shelby County vaguely supposed to
>>>be, anyway?
>>
>>About 50 miles or so from Beatty, I guess -- I'm not
>>sure which direction, though! Roughly the same thing
>>as forty miles from Forty Mile. I don't know a whole
>>lot about Nevada geography, so I made stuff up
>
>50 miles from Beatty, eh? I suppose that makes some
>sort of sense, though it couldn't be west; Beatty
>pretty close to the California border. Probably the
>directions that would make most sense are north or
>east. :)
East doesn't work very well. Fifty miles east of Beatty puts you very deeply into the Nellis Ranges or the Nevada Test Site. One gets a little hot and heavy with small bombs (up to about a ton), the other takes you into the world of high radiation dosage and man made earth quakes; or did before they quit underground testing.
Those that think US 95 is desolate should try driving from the Hiko "Y" to Tonopah on Nevada 375. US 50 may be "The Loneliest Road" but that's because so few have even seen 375.
