Pyramid City, Nevada

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Pyramid City is a ghost town in Washoe County, Nevada, located south of Sutcliffe. It consisted of two mining camps: Upper Pyramid (also called Jonesville) and Lower Pyramid (Pyramid City). Silver was found in the area as early as 1860, but real interest began in spring 1876 after a Reno doctor treated a miner and a sample tested well. A two-stamp mill was built to process the ore, and by the summer of 1876 the town’s population reached about 300.

By March 1877 Pyramid City had two saloons, a Chinese washhouse, a store, a boarding house, and a daily stage line to Reno. In winter, around sixty miners worked there, with only one woman living in the camp. The town faded in the late 1880s, and the post office closed in 1889. Today no structures remain at the site.

The post office operated from February to October 1879, and again from April 1880 to February 1889. Do not confuse this Pyramid City with Pyramid, Nevada, which lies north of Sutcliffe.