Mina, NV

Mina is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Mineral County in west-central Nevada, United States. Mina is located along U.S. Route 95 at an elevation of 4,560 feet. Mina was founded as a railroad town in 1905 and was named for Ferminia Sarras, a large landowner and famed prospector known as the "Copper Queen". The short version is that Mina carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Mina: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The Carson and Colorado Railway, a division of Southern Pacific Railroad, had a station in the town. Mina is located in the Soda Spring Valley of eastern Mineral County along U.S. Route 95, 32 miles southeast of Hawthorne and 70 miles northwest of Tonopah. The Köppen Climate System classifies the weather in this area as semi-arid, abbreviated BSk.