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Nevada, United States
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Northern Nevada consists of dry, mountainous, sparsely populated landscapes. Most of the towns are dotted along the Humboldt River, Interstate 80, and the railroad, all of which cut across this part of Nevada from west to east, running next to each other for much of the way.
The California Zephyr train route, between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area via Salt Lake City and Reno, passes through northern Nevada with stops in Elko and Winnemucca.
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Battle Mountain is in Nevada between Winnemucca and Elko on Interstate 80.
Elko (Shoshoni: Natakkoa) is a city in Elko county, Northern Nevada.
Jackpot is in Northern Nevada, just across the border from Idaho.
Lovelock is in Northern Nevada.
Wells is a small town in Elko County in Northern Nevada, with a population in 2010 of just under 1300. It grew up in the 19th century because it offered a water supply on the trail (and later the railroad) to California.
Wendover is a resort town of about 6,700 people (2012) straddling the border that divides the American states of Utah and Nevada, 120 miles due west of Salt Lake City. The location on the state border makes Wendover the nearest legalized gambling for millions of people, which has led to the construction of large, extravagant casino resorts despite the town being otherwise very small and remote.
Winnemucca is a small city in Nevada that got its start as a station on the first transcontinental railroad. It's now a hub for mining, freight traffic, and other activity in northern Nevada, and it also has enough to pique a visitor's interest: mountain landscapes, casinos, vestiges of the Old West, and a proud Basque heritage.
A city of 70,000 people during the annual Burning Man festival at the end of August, wide open desert during the rest of the year.
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