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Vanderbilt

Ghost town · Eureka County, Nevada

Pinto Summit quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1953, 1:62,500)
Pinto Summit quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1953, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Vanderbilt is a ghost town in Eureka County, Nevada. It is one of 17 former communities in Eureka County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 14th among the 17 Nevada counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Vanderbilt as a historical populated place on the Pinto Summit 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 39.4247° N, 115.9784° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Nevada before 1931 that mention “Vanderbilt”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context. 2,883 pages in all.

Key facts

USGS quadranglePinto Summit
Elevation7,382 ft
Nearest living townEureka, NV
Distance to it6 miles
GNIS feature ID858367
Coordinates39.42465, -115.97839

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.

Vanderbilt today, aerial view
Pinto Summit quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1953, 1:62,500)

Left: Pinto Summit quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1953, 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

Vanderbilt is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Eureka, NV (population 364), about 6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 7,382 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 Vanderbilt?

Vanderbilt is in Eureka County, Nevada, at 39.4247, -115.9784.

How many ghost towns are in Eureka County?

Eureka County, Nevada has 17 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.