Pioneer, Nevada

Pioneer, Nevada
Ghost town
Ruins at Pioneer, Nevada, a former mining town
Pioneer, Nevada
Coordinates: 37°00′19″N 116°47′02″W / 37.00528°N 116.78389°W / 37.00528; -116.78389[1]
Country	United States
State	Nevada
County	Nye
Elevation [1]	4,222 ft (1,287 m)
Population  (1908)
• Total	~2,500
Time zone	UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC-7)

Pioneer is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Beginning as a mining camp near the Mayflower and other gold mines in northern Bullfrog Hills, it became a formal town in 1908 and flourished briefly until fire destroyed much of its business district in 1909 and litigation delayed mining. Population peaked at an estimated 2,500 in 1908, and the community survived at least through the closing of the Pioneer post office in 1931. Mining continued near the town site through 1941. Few remnants of Pioneer structures survived through the end of the 20th century.