Esmeralda County Repository Oversight Program
Esmeralda County is located in west-central Nevada situated astride the diagonal portion of the Nevada-California line. The County encompasses nearly 3,570 square miles or 2,284,800 acres of land. It shares common borders with Mineral County on the northwest, Nye County on two sides to the northeast and east, with Mono and Inyo counties in neighboring California to the southwest. The County also borders and contains part of Death Valley National Monument. Esmeralda County, once the largest county in the new Territory, is now the fifth smallest county in Nevada (ahead of Lyon, Douglas, and Storey counties and Carson City) and accounts for 3.2 percent of Nevada’s total surface area of 110,540 square miles.
Photo description: High country desert in Esmeralda County.
