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Knickerbocker

Ghost town · Nye County, Nevada

Ione quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 1:62,500)
Ione quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Knickerbocker is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada. It is one of 109 former communities in Nye County on the federal names register. No county in Nevada has more among the 17 Nevada counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Knickerbocker as a historical populated place on the Ione 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 38.9152° N, 117.5907° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleIone
Elevation6,947 ft
Nearest living townGabbs, NV
Distance to it18.7 miles
GNIS feature ID848266
Coordinates38.91520, -117.59066

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.

Knickerbocker today, aerial view
Ione quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 1:62,500)

Left: Ione quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1948, 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

Knickerbocker is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Gabbs, NV (population 158), about 18.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 6,947 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 Knickerbocker?

Knickerbocker is in Nye County, Nevada, at 38.9152, -117.5907.

How many ghost towns are in Nye County?

Nye County, Nevada has 109 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.