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Ely was established as a stagecoach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland Route.
Ely's quarrying boom came later than the other suburbs along US 50, with the discernment of copper in 1906.
Although the barns s connecting the First Transcontinental Railroad to the mines in Austin and Eureka have long been removed, the barns to Ely is preserved as a tradition stockyards by the Nevada Northern Railway and known as the Ghost Train of Old Ely. As of the 2010 census, the populace was 4,255.
Ely, 1906 Ely was established as a stagecoach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland Route.
Ely's quarrying boom came later than the other suburbs along US 50, with the discernment of copper in 1906.
This made Ely a quarrying town, suffering through the boom-and-bust cycles so common in the West.
Originally, Ely was home to a number of copper quarrying companies, Kennecott being the most famous.
The town was first called Ely in 1878 with respect to Smith Ely, president of the Selby Copper Mining and Smelting Company. Gold mines as widespread as the Robinson universal near Ruth, and Am - Selco's Alligator Ridge mine 65 miles (105 km) from Ely, kept the town alive amid the 1980s and 1990s, until the recent revival of copper mining.
The dramatic increase in demand for copper in 2005 has once again made Ely a copper boom town.
The now-defunct BHP Nevada Railroad ran from the quarrying precinct south of Ruth through Ely to the junction with the Union Pacific at Shafter from 1996 99.
Ely is 77 miles (124 km) east of Eureka, Nevada, 153 miles (246 km) west of Delta, Utah, 105 miles (169 km) north of Pioche, Nevada, 139 miles (224 km) south of Wells, Nevada, and 120 miles (190 km) south of West Wendover, Nevada. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.1 square miles (18 km2), all of it land.
Ely experiences a semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk), and extreme day-night temperature differences year-round.
Ely's eveningtime temperatures account for it being listed as one of the coldest places in the adjoining United States, with an average of 217.6 evenings per year with a minimum temperature of 32 F (0 C) or less, 17.5 evenings reaching 0 F ( 17.8 C) or less, and 23 days where the high does not top freezing. On average, the first and last dates of freezing temperatures are September 6 and June 18, in the order given, allowing a burgeoning season of only 79 days.
The monthly mean temperature ranges from 25.3 F ( 3.7 C) in January to 67.8 F (19.9 C) in July.
High temperatures of 90 F (32 C) or higher occur on an average of 25.8 days annually, but, due to the altitude and aridity, the low very rarely manages to stay at or above 60 F or 16 C.
Extreme temperatures range from 101 F (38.3 C) on July 18, 1998 down to 30 F ( 34.4 C) on February 6, 1989.
The wettest calendar year has been 1897 with 16.16 inches (410.5 mm) and the driest 1974 with 4.22 inches (107.2 mm), though as much as 18.20 inches or 462.3 millimetres fell from July 1982 to June 1983.
Average annual snow flurry is 50.8 inches (1.29 m), while the most snow flurry in one month was 42.0 inches (1.07 m) in March 1894, and the greatest depth of snow on the ground 24 inches or 0.61 metres on January 23, 2010 though data from neighbouring Elko suggest greater depths in the winters of 1889/1890, 1915/1916 and 1931/1932.
Climate data for Ely Airport, Ely, Nevada, (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1893 present) Ely in 2006 Ely is a tourism center, and is home of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum.
Nearby are Great Basin National Park, Cave Lake State Park, and Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park, as well as the state parks of Lincoln County, Nevada.
The barns exhibition features the Ghost Train of Old Ely, a working steam-engine passenger train that travels the historic tracks from Ely to the Robinson quarrying district.
Ely is the nearest town to the proposed site of the Clock of the Long Now on Mount Washington. The historic six-story Hotel Nevada and Gambling Hall is positioned in downtown Ely.
The long stretch of road on State Route 318 near Ely is known for the annual 90 miles (140 km) Silver State Classic Challenge course, an authorized time-trial Cannonball Run-style race that attracts entries from all over the world.
The Ely Renaissance Society has facilitated more than 20 outside murals and sculptures in the downtown area.
The Bureau of Land Management, part of the United States Department of the Interior, operates an region supporting an elk herd south of town.
The Ely Elk Viewing Area offers visitors the opportunity to see an elk improve up close.
Ely was the host of the 2016 National Speleological Society's annual convention. Geologic structure map showing quarrying operations west of Ely.
Iron-rich gossans were mined for precious metals in Lane Valley west of Ely starting in 1867.
Copper was mined by the Giroux Consolidated Mining Company starting in 1903 and by the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company in 1904.
The UNLV Rebels football team used to conduct their summer training camp in Ely, a cooler place for August practices and preparation for the higher altitudes of most Mountain West Conference road games.
Commercial air service was available at Ely Airport until March 31, 2013.
In 2011 the Ely Airport was incessantly cited as one of the non-urban airports receiving federal subsidies through the Essential Air Service program. Route 50 (Ely is the easterly end of the portion of U.S.
The historic Lincoln Highway, the first road athwart America, went through Ely, entering town from the north on U.S.
Ely's small-town journal is The Ely Times. Ely has two small-town airways broadcasts: KDSS (92.7 FM) and KELY (1230 AM).
Salt Lake City's KSFI airways broadcast is also broadcast in Ely, at 95.3 FM. Nixon and the former First Lady of the United States, was born in Ely on March 16, 1912 "Laying Low in Eli, Nevada" (2005), a song performed by David Dondero for his South of the South album. "Ely Nevada" (2008), a song performed by Ry Cooder for the My Blueberry Nights soundtrack. "Ely, Nevada".
Ghost Towns Nevada website Western Regional Climate Center; ELY WBO, NEVADA Temperature Summary "NV Ely Yelland FLD AP".
"Monthly Averages for Ely, NV (89315)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Hotel Nevada website Ely Renaissance website "Cavers descend on Ely for nationwide convention almost too big for non-urban Nevada town".
"Ely Art Bank to host cave photo exhibit".
The Ely Times.
Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine County, Nevada in USGS Bulletin 1857 Gold in Copper Porphyry Copper Systems.
"Who's in trouble in Ely? The Ely Times.
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