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| Our Towns  Amargosa Valley
Amargosa Valley "Champagne Air & Million Dollar Sunsets" 
Unincorporated TownLocation: south central Nevada Area: 545 square miles Elevation: 2,661 feet View video of Amargosa "Broadband recommended to view video" Amargosa Valley is primarily comprised of large residential parcels. Area industry is mainly agriculture and mining. There are three dairies and two industrial mineral mines with plants for processing cinder and specialty clay products. There is some light manufacturing and one large parcel that is being developed as an industrial park with some speculative building, which includes a 20,000 sq. foot building suitable for many forms of industry. The area is located close to the Nevada Test Site and the Yucca Mountain access. High-capacity fiber optic cabling is available along highway 95. The community planning effort calls for high tech and other industry along highways 95 and 373.
HISTORY  Corkhill Hall, built in the 1920s, is now
Amargosa is a Spanish word for "bitter water". The valley was named after the
seasonal desert river that flows when rainwater floods the washes and becomes
the Amargosa River. There is a 20-mile stretch of this 200-mile long river,
close to Shoshone, California that runs perennially. In the 1800s, the Southern
Paiute and the Western Shoshone tribes occupied the area. In 1830, horse
traders opened a trail through the valley, which later was used as the route
to California and gold. Borax mining led to the establishment of a community
in 1905. It wasn't until the 1950s that modern development of the valley began.
Electricity didn't come along until 1963. The population of Amargosa has been
on the rise, largely due to the influx of people moving to the Las Vegas and
Pahrump Valley areas.
the famous Amargosa Opera House.
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