| Massacre Lake | |
|---|---|
  Massacre Lake | |
| Location | Washoe County, Nevada |
| Coordinates | 41°39′12″N 119°36′18″W / 41.65333°N 119.60500°W |
| Surface elevation | 1,704 m (5,591 ft) |
Massacre Lake is a lake in the northwest of the U.S. state of Nevada.[1] It was named in commemoration of a supposed 1850 massacre of a party of pioneers.[2][3][4] However, a later study suggested that the supposed massacre never took place, due to it being absent in contemporary records.[5] The lake is the site of the oldest known mastodon remains in North America, dating to 16.5-16.4 million years ago.[6]
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Massacre Lake
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 70.
- ^ The Origin of Place Names cites: Mack, Effie Mona (1936). "Nevada: A History of the State from the Earliest Times Through the Civil War". Retrieved May 24, 2023.
- ^ Mack cites "Nevada Section is Weird Land". Sacramento Bee. March 11, 1931. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
- ^ Thomas N. Layton, "Massacre! What Massacre? An inquiry into the Massacre of 1850," p 241-251, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 1977.
- ^ Koenigswald, Widga & Göhlich (2021): New mammutids (Proboscidea) from the Clarendonian and Hemphillian of Oregon – a survey of Mio-Pliocene mammutids from North America