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Cornish Camp

Ghost town · Pershing County, Nevada

Buffalo Mtn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1954, 1:62,500)
Buffalo Mtn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1954, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Cornish Camp is a ghost town in Pershing County, Nevada. It is one of 36 former communities in Pershing County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 7th among the 17 Nevada counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Cornish Camp as a historical populated place on the Cornish Peak topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 40.0277° N, 118.0260° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCornish Peak
Elevation5,021 ft
Nearest living townLovelock, NV
Distance to it26 miles
GNIS feature ID848326
Coordinates40.02769, -118.02597

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Cornish Camp today, aerial view
Buffalo Mtn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1954, 1:62,500)

Left: Buffalo Mtn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1954, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Cornish Camp is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lovelock, NV (population 1,611), about 26 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 5,021 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Cornish Camp?

Cornish Camp is in Pershing County, Nevada, at 40.0277, -118.0260.

How many ghost towns are in Pershing County?

Pershing County, Nevada has 36 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.