Nelson, NV

Nelson is a census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The 2020 census counted 22 residents. The community is in the Pacific Standard Time zone. The location of Nelson is in El Dorado Canyon, Eldorado Mountains. A newcomer can read Nelson through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Nelson comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The town is in the southeast region of the Eldorado Valley. The rush to the canyon began in 1861, several mining camps were established in the canyon, and a steamboat landing at the mouth of the canyon on the Colorado River, called Colorado City. During the American Civil War, deserters from both the Union and Confederate armies would wander there, hoping that such an isolated location would be the last place military authorities would look for them.