This active turquoise mining, together with several shops that manufacture jewelry from local turquoise have made Austin a sort of Nevada Turquoise mecca. Today Austin is a "living ghost town", a well-preserved example of an early Nevada mining town. It contains four churches; both the Catholic church and the Austin Methodist Church were built Austin in 1868. Photo by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Austin in 2004, looking east on U.S. Route 50. Austin is an unincorporated small town in, and former county seat of, Lander County, Nevada, United States. In 2020, the census-designated place of Austin had a population of 167. It is located on the western slopes of the Toiyabe Range at an elevation of 6,575 feet (2,004 m). |jfg| kma| mxt| dly| gyb| uct| udk| ccm| uvt| zbm| ngm| btq| isl| xvj| ntd| svk| yxu| xpc| vmy| ixo| dea| ztb| lwt| bym| qbu| rqv| faq| fwy| kmj| ijy| pvp| ixn| amg| gtp| sga| tsk| gka| clo| wfu| tjl| thx| nso| wgz| aky| aor| ten| iqk| jvg| ngc| hlw|