Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1561
Land area (2000): 16.209397 sq. miles (41.982143 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 16.209397 sq. miles (41.982143 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73600
Located within: Nevada (NV), FIPS 32
Location: 38.069058 N, 117.230502 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 89049
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tonopah
Wikipedia
Tonopah may refer to:
- Tonopah, Arizona, a community
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Tonopah, Nevada, a community and eponym of the Boston-Tonopah Mining Company and Tonopah Club
- Tonopah Airport Committee, a community group for acquiring a 1940s airstrip
- Tonopah Times-Bonanza, the community's newspaper in 1942
- Tonopah Air Force Station, a Cold War radar station along with Las Vegas Air Force Station
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Tonopah Basin, Central Basin and Range ecoregions around the Tonopah Playas
- Tonopah fishhook cactus (Sclerocactus nyensis), a state-protected plant
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Tonopah Bombing Range, the 1940 WWII designation of the military region
- Tonopah Bombing and Gunnery Range, the 1948 facility transferred to Air Training Command
- Tonopah Air Force Base, the 1949 main base for the bombing range
- Tonopah Army Air Field, the main base's name in World War II
- Tonopah Summit, the elevated landform near the Boston Tonopah, Montana Tonopah, and Tonopah Extension mines
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Tonopah Test Range, a nuclear test area SW of the Tonopah Bombing Range
- Tonopah Field Office, a division of the Bureau of Land Management at the "Tonopah Ranger Station"/"Tonopah Field Station"
- Tonopah Test Range Airport
- USS Tonopah, the ship renamed from Monitor USS Nevada (BM-8) in 1909
Usage examples of "tonopah".
Above the windows and below the slightly jutting barrel roof Tonopah and Tidewater R.
About thirty minutes after our brush with the Okies we pulled into an all-night diner on the Tonopah highway, on the kirts of a mean/scag ghetto called North Las Vegas.
He was a congenial, easygoing man of sixty or more with memories of the great days at Goldfield, Tonopah, Randsburg, and Cripple Creek.
The airplanes had been moved weeks earlier to the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, the same secret field where the air force had tested its stealth prototypes.
Until their new base was built in Battle Mountain, Nevada, her little unit of six EB-IC bombers was temporarily located at Tonopah Test Range, or TTR, in western Nevada inside the Nellis range complex.