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State:    Nevada

City:       Ely

Ely is the largest city and county seat of White Pine County, Nevada, United States.Ely was founded as a stagecoach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland Route. Ely's mining boom came later than the other towns along US 50, with the discovery of copper in 1906. Though the railroads connecting the First Transcontinental Railroad to the mines in Austin and Eureka have long been removed, the railroad to Ely is preserved as a heritage railway by the Nevada Northern Railway and known as the Ghost Train of Old Ely.  As of the 2000 census, the population was 4,041.

Ely was founded as a stagecoach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland Route. Ely's mining boom came later than the other towns along US 50, with the discovery of copper in 1906. This made Ely a mining town, suffering through the boom-and-bust cycles so common in the West. Originally, Ely was home to a number of copper mining companies, Kennecott being the most famous. With a crash in the copper market in the mid 1970s, Kennecott shut down and copper mining disappeared (temporarily).

As Kennecott's smelter was demolished, copper concentrate from the mine is now shipped by rail to Seattle, where it is transported to Japan for smelting. The dramatic increase in demand for copper in 2005 has once again made Ely a copper boom town.

Ely is a tourism center, and is home of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. Nearby are Great Basin National Park, Cave Lake State Park, and Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park, as well as the state parks of Lincoln County, Nevada.

The long stretch of road on State Route 318 near Ely is known for the annual 90 miles (145 km) Silver State Classic Challenge course, an authorized time trial Cannonball Run-style race that attracts entries from all over the world.

The Ely Renaissance Society has financed more than twenty outdoor murals and sculptures in the downtown area. Artists from all over the world have been commissioned to create images of area history, using different art styles. They also maintain a historical village consisting of a general store and several shotgun houses which display the history of the ethnic groups that came to the area to work for the railroad and the mine.

The Bureau of Land Management, part of the United States Department of the Interior, operates an area supporting an elk herd south of town. The Ely Elk Viewing Area offers visitors the opportunity to see an elk community up close.

The historic Lincoln Highway, the first road across America, went through Ely, entering town from the north on U.S. Route 93 and departing town to the west on U.S. Route 50.

Income & Housing Costs Numbers:

Estimated median household income in 2008: $43,653 (it was $36,408 in 2000)

Ely:	$43,653
Nevada:	$56,361

Estimated median house or condo value in 2008: $133,792 (it was $67,400 in 2000)

Ely:	$133,792
Nevada:	$271,500

Mean prices in 2008: All housing units: $153,379; Detached houses: $137,469; Townhouses or other attached units: $2,195,808; In 5-or-more-unit structures: $3,215,083; Mobile homes: $29,757

Dec. 2009 cost of living index in Ely: 80.4 (low, U.S. average is 100)

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