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Oreana

Ghost town · Pershing County, Nevada

Oreana quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1956, 1:62,500)
Oreana quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1956, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Oreana 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 Oreana as a historical populated place on the Oreana 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 40.3107° N, 118.3704° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Nevada before 1931 that mention “Oreana”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 2,502 pages in all.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleOreana
Elevation4,060 ft
Nearest living townHumboldt River Ranch, NV
Distance to it9.8 miles
GNIS feature ID848204
Coordinates40.31074, -118.37042

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.

Oreana today, aerial view
Oreana quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1956, 1:62,500)

Left: Oreana quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1956, 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

Oreana is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Humboldt River Ranch, NV (population 162), about 9.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 4,060 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 Oreana?

Oreana is in Pershing County, Nevada, at 40.3107, -118.3704.

How many ghost towns are in Pershing County?

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

Sources and licences

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.