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Toy

Ghost town · Pershing County, Nevada

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

Toy 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 Toy as a historical populated place on the Toulon 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 40.0169° N, 118.6732° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleToulon Peak
Elevation3,932 ft
Nearest living townLovelock, NV
Distance to it15.2 miles
GNIS feature ID854653
Coordinates40.01685, -118.67321

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.

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

Left: Toulon 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

Toy is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lovelock, NV (population 1,611), about 15.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 3,932 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 Toy?

Toy is in Pershing County, Nevada, at 40.0169, -118.6732.

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.