Hiko, NV

Hiko is a Lincoln County CDP whose history began as a mining camp in 1865. W. H. Raymond and others laid out the townsite in 1866, and a five-stamp mill processed Pahranagat ores before Hiko became Lincoln County's first seat that November. The mill moved to Bullionville in 1870, and the county government moved to Pioche in 1871, leaving Hiko's present identity tied to the rise and contraction of an early Nevada mining center. Its rural Basin setting still carries the name of that first county seat.