| Massacre Lake | |
|---|---|
  Massacre Lake | |
| Location | Washoe County, Nevada |
| Coordinates | 41°39′12″N 119°36′18″W / 41.65333°N 119.60500°W / 41.65333; -119.60500 |
| Surface elevation | 1,704 m (5,591 ft) |
Massacre Lake is a lake in the northwest of the U.S. state of Nevada. It was named in commemoration of a supposed 1850 massacre of a party of pioneers. However, a later study suggested that the supposed massacre never took place, due to it being absent in contemporary records. The lake is the site of the oldest known mastodon remains in North America, dating to 16.5-16.4 million years ago.
References
- 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
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