Please remember to exercise caution when exploring Nevada's Ghost Towns & Mining Camps. Open shafts, drifts going into mountainsides, and old buildings, are all DANGEROUS. Be aware of your surroundings, and let someone know where you are, especially if your plans change.

Fort McDermitt

Located 5 miles east of US 95 at a point 40 miles north of its junction with SR 140 ( 69 miles north of Winnemucca ).

-This place is not to be confused with the community of McDermitt on US 95, 5 miles to the west.-

"Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. McDermitt (also spelled McDermit ), commander of the Nevada military district , ordered establishment of a camp at Quinn River Station on the north bank of the East Fork of the Quinn River during the summer of 1865 to protect travelers passing between Boise, Star City and Virginia City. That same summer Colonel McDermitt was ambushed and killed by Indians while riding in the Quinn River Valley, and by 1867 the camp renamed in his honor had stone and adobe buildings which housed the usual army facilities. About a decade later frame buildings were added, and in 1879 Camp McDermitt became Fort McDermitt, but the need for military presence in the area was diminishing, and a decade later the fort, Nevada's last cavalry post was abandoned. The buildings became part of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, and some of them still stand."

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