Beatty (Town), NV

Beatty is a town in Nevada, lying between Tonopah, about 90 miles (140 km) to the north and Las Vegas, about 120 miles (190 km) to the southeast.
Historically, Western Shoshone in the Beatty area hunted game and gathered wild plants in the region.
Beatty is named after Murray Beatty, a Civil War veteran and miner who bought a ranch along the Amargosa River just north of the future community and became its first postmaster in 1905. The community was laid out in 1904 or 1905 after Ernest Montgomery, owner of the Montgomery Shoshone Mine near Rhyolite, decided to build the Montgomery Hotel in Beatty.
During Beatty's first year, wagons pulled by teams of horses or mules hauled freight between the Bullfrog district (that included the towns of Rhyolite, Bullfrog, Gold Center, Transvaal, and Springdale) and the nearest railroad, in Las Vegas, and by the middle of 1905, about 1,500 horses were engaged in this business.
In October 1906, the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad (LV&T) began regular service to Beatty.
Beatty's population grew slowly in the first half of the 20th century, rising from 169 in 1929 to 485 in 1950. When a new mine opened west of Beatty in 1988, the population briefly surged from about 1,000 to between 1,500 and 2,000 by the end of 1990. Since the mine's closing in 1998, the population has fallen again to near its former level. By 2000, there were 1,154 people, 535 households, and 270 families residing in the CDP.
The community is home to the Beatty Museum and Historical Society. The ghost town of Rhyolite and the Goldwell Open Air Museum, a sculpture park, are about 4 miles (6 km) to the west. StageCoach is Beatty's local Casino.