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Weeks

Ghost town · Lyon County, Nevada

Churchill Butte quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 1:62,500)
Churchill Butte quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Weeks is a ghost town in Lyon County, Nevada. It is one of 23 former communities in Lyon County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 13th among the 17 Nevada counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Weeks as a historical populated place on the Churchill Butte 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 39.2996° N, 119.2540° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleChurchill Butte
Elevation4,214 ft
Nearest living townSilver Springs, NV
Distance to it6.2 miles
GNIS feature ID854764
Coordinates39.29964, -119.25405

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.

Weeks today, aerial view
Churchill Butte quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 1:62,500)

Left: Churchill Butte quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1957, 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

Weeks is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Silver Springs, NV (population 5,523), about 6.2 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 4,214 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 Weeks?

Weeks is in Lyon County, Nevada, at 39.2996, -119.2540.

How many ghost towns are in Lyon County?

Lyon County, Nevada has 23 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.