San Juan, Nevada

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San Juan or Upper Camp is a ghost town that was a mining camp of the Eldorado Mining District, established in 1861 in the Nevada Territory.

It was located in the upper reach of El Dorado Canyon, just below the present day location of Nelson in Clark County, Nevada. Its ore was transported by steamboats of the Colorado River^[1]

References

v t e Steamboats of the Colorado River
Particular vessels	Cochan Cocopah I Cocopah II Colorado I Colorado II Esmerelda Explorer General Jesup General Rosales Gila Mohave I Mohave II Nina Tilden Retta Searchlight St. Vallier San Jorge Uncle Sam
Steamboat Lines	California Development Company Colorado Steam Navigation Company George A. Johnson & Company Gulf of California Steamship Company Green, Grand & Colorado River Navigation Company Mexican-Colorado Navigation Company Pacific & Colorado Steam Navigation Company Philadelphia Silver and Copper Mining Company Stacy Brothers Union Line U.S. Reclamation Service
Water routes	Colorado River
Steamboat owners and captains	James Turnbull George Alonzo Johnson David C. Robinson Isaac Polhamus Thomas E. Trueworthy John Alexander Mellon
Builders	Austin Hills Domingo Marcucci John G. North Henry Owens Patrick Henry Tiernan
Shipyards	Port Isabel, Sonora Yuma, Arizona Territory
List of vessels	List of Steamboats on the Colorado River
Steamboats in other areas	Steamboats of California

v t e Municipalities and communities of Clark County, Nevada, United States
County seat: Las Vegas
Cities	Boulder City Henderson Las Vegas Mesquite‡ North Las Vegas
CDPs	Blue Diamond Bunkerville Cal-Nev-Ari Enterprise Goodsprings Indian Springs Laughlin Moapa Town Moapa Valley Mount Charleston Nellis AFB Nelson Paradise Sandy Valley Searchlight Spring Valley Summerlin South Sunrise Manor Whitney Winchester
Unincorporated communities	Arden Cactus Springs Cottonwood Cove Coyote Springs Crystal Glendale Jean Las Vegas Chinatown Lone Mountain Logandale Lower Kyle Canyon Mountain Springs Overton Primm Red Rock Riverside Sloan Stewarts Point
Townships	Henderson Las Vegas North Las Vegas
Ghost towns	Alturas Bonelli's Ferry Buster Falls Callville Colorado City El Dorado City Gold Butte Louisville Lucky Jim Camp Nelson's Landing Potosi Quartette Rioville San Juan Simonsville St. Thomas Stone's Ferry Saint Joseph
Indian reservations	Fort Mojave Indian Reservation‡ Moapa River Indian Reservation
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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