https://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Smoke_Creek_Station&feed=atom&action=historySmoke Creek Station - Revision history2024-03-28T09:09:37ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.2https://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Smoke_Creek_Station&diff=11109&oldid=prevCxbrx: 1857 map2023-11-04T16:43:16Z<p>1857 map</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Yet another source states that Smoke Creek Station was 4 miles from [[Rush Creek]] along a graveled road (!) and "Here we found plentyh of water and good feed, and a store kept by Messrs. Washburne & Co."<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chico-weekly-courant-idaho-stage-roa/106531396/ Idaho Stage Road]," The Chico Weekly Courant, Jul 7, 1866, p. 2. Brief description of stations.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Yet another source states that Smoke Creek Station was 4 miles from [[Rush Creek]] along a graveled road (!) and "Here we found plentyh of water and good feed, and a store kept by Messrs. Washburne & Co."<ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chico-weekly-courant-idaho-stage-roa/106531396/ Idaho Stage Road]," The Chico Weekly Courant, Jul 7, 1866, p. 2. Brief description of stations.</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Smoke_Creek_Station&diff=11098&oldid=prevCxbrx: /* Smoke Creek Station - stage station */ Distances.2023-10-28T15:32:52Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Smoke Creek Station - stage station: </span> Distances.</span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One is listed in the [https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/850306 GNIS] as being "ruins with grave" at 40.5515682 -119.9507620. This location is to the west of the Smoke Creek Desert and is on the stage road from Chico to the mines in Idaho.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One is listed in the [https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/850306 GNIS] as being "ruins with grave" at 40.5515682 -119.9507620. This location is to the west of the Smoke Creek Desert and is on the stage road from Chico to the mines in Idaho.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Smoke_Creek_Station&diff=11095&oldid=prevCxbrx: /* Smoke Creek Station - stage station */ Rebel Cut Off2023-10-28T14:52:34Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Smoke Creek Station - stage station: </span> Rebel Cut Off</span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** "It is unfortunate for San Francisco to be located so far away from Smoke Creek but we cant help it now. — Speaking of square meals/ torch light processions, baled hay and 'sich' like, there is where we understand ourselves. We can converse upon those subjects, in connection with that commercial article called cash, with the most perfect aplomb and nonchalance."</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** "It is unfortunate for San Francisco to be located so far away from Smoke Creek but we cant help it now. — Speaking of square meals/ torch light processions, baled hay and 'sich' like, there is where we understand ourselves. We can converse upon those subjects, in connection with that commercial article called cash, with the most perfect aplomb and nonchalance."</div></td></tr>
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</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Smoke_Creek_Station&diff=11094&oldid=prevCxbrx: /* Smoke Creek Station - stage station */ Comparison with Fort Churchill2023-10-28T14:38:44Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Smoke Creek Station - stage station: </span> Comparison with Fort Churchill</span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The following people are buried at the Smoke Creek Station Cemetery.<ref>"[https://tipurdy.org/smoke-creek-cemetery/ Smoke Creek Cemetery]", tipurdy.com.</ref></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One is listed in the [https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/850306 GNIS] as being "ruins with grave" at 40.5515682 -119.9507620. This location is to the west of the Smoke Creek Desert and is on the stage road</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One is listed in the [https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/850306 GNIS] as being "ruins with grave" at 40.5515682 -119.9507620. This location is to the west of the Smoke Creek Desert and is on the stage road <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from Chico to the mines in Idaho.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Fairfield, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=NRcVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA262&ots=P_OCd4uKAn&dq=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&pg=PA261#v=onepage&q=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&f=false Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California,]" </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Fairfield, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=NRcVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA262&ots=P_OCd4uKAn&dq=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&pg=PA261#v=onepage&q=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&f=false Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California,]" </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* p. 241: "Fred Hines and L. N. Breed kept the Smoke Creek station this summer and fall."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* p. 241: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1861, </ins>"Fred Hines and L. N. Breed kept the Smoke Creek station this summer and fall."</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* p. 261: "In the fall of 1861 J.H. Breed bought his brother's share of the Smoke Creek Station and probably got the part that belonged to [[Fred Hines | Hines]] a little later on. He stayed there the following winter and in the spring sold out to I.J. Harvey who had been employed to buy the property for a United States Army Post During the winter of 1862-63 William V. Kingsbury established a trading post at Smoke Creek and afterwards kept a station or hotel in connection with it. He stayed there until late in the 60's." </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* p. 261: "In the fall of 1861 J.H. Breed bought his brother's share of the Smoke Creek Station and probably got the part that belonged to [[Fred Hines | Hines]] a little later on. He stayed there the following winter and in the spring sold out to I.J. Harvey who had been employed to buy the property for a United States Army Post During the winter of 1862-63 William V. Kingsbury established a trading post at Smoke Creek and afterwards kept a station or hotel in connection with it. He stayed there until late in the 60's." </div></td></tr>
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</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Smoke_Creek_Station&diff=10774&oldid=prevCxbrx: /* Smoke Creek Station - stage station */ Link to Camp Smoke Creek2022-12-29T22:48:40Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Smoke Creek Station - stage station: </span> Link to <a href="/wiki/index.php/Camp_Smoke_Creek" title="Camp Smoke Creek">Camp Smoke Creek</a></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/hmaps,1138 Township 31 North -- Range 18 East -- Sheet 1 (T31NR18E.1)] (1866) shows Smoke Creek Station.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/hmaps,1138 Township 31 North -- Range 18 East -- Sheet 1 (T31NR18E.1)] (1866) shows Smoke Creek Station.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Ruhlen states that Camp (and Depot) Smoke Creek was near the Smoke Creek Station.<ref name="Ruhlen">Col. George Ruhlen, "[https://www.onlinenevada.org/sites/default/files/EarlyForts_Ruhlen_1964_Part2.pdf Early Nevada Forts]," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, p. 51, Vol. VII, No. 3-4, 1964.</ref> Ruhlen also describes Camp Pollock (June-July 1864) as being near Smoke Creek Camp, but that Pollock was on the California-Nevada line that had recently been surveyed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Ruhlen states that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"[[Camp Smoke Creek| </ins>Camp (and Depot) Smoke Creek<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]" </ins>was near the Smoke Creek Station.<ref name="Ruhlen">Col. George Ruhlen, "[https://www.onlinenevada.org/sites/default/files/EarlyForts_Ruhlen_1964_Part2.pdf Early Nevada Forts]," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, p. 51, Vol. VII, No. 3-4, 1964.</ref> Ruhlen also describes Camp Pollock (June-July 1864) as being near Smoke Creek Camp, but that Pollock was on the California-Nevada line that had recently been surveyed.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Helen S. Carlson, "[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nevada_Place_Names/7GyVDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Henry+W.+Williams%22+nevada&pg=PT507&printsec=frontcover Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary,]" p. 219, located about 5 miles east of the California/Nevada Line. This location appears on a 1881 map. and is near [[Robbers Roost]]. Carlson states that the station was established by Lieutenant Henry W. Williams from Fort Crook California on December 15, 1862. In October 1863, Nevada Volunteers were ordered to replace the California troops and moved to [[Granite Creek Station]]. Smoke Creek Station was abandoned in 1866 (<ref name="Ruhlen">Col. George Ruhlen, "[https://www.onlinenevada.org/sites/default/files/EarlyForts_Ruhlen_1964_Part2.pdf Early Nevada Forts]," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, p. 51, Vol. VII, No. 3-4, 1964.</ref>)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Helen S. Carlson, "[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nevada_Place_Names/7GyVDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Henry+W.+Williams%22+nevada&pg=PT507&printsec=frontcover Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary,]" p. 219, located about 5 miles east of the California/Nevada Line. This location appears on a 1881 map. and is near [[Robbers Roost]]. Carlson states that the station was established by Lieutenant Henry W. Williams from Fort Crook California on December 15, 1862. In October 1863, Nevada Volunteers were ordered to replace the California troops and moved to [[Granite Creek Station]]. Smoke Creek Station was abandoned in 1866 (<ref name="Ruhlen">Col. George Ruhlen, "[https://www.onlinenevada.org/sites/default/files/EarlyForts_Ruhlen_1964_Part2.pdf Early Nevada Forts]," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, p. 51, Vol. VII, No. 3-4, 1964.</ref>)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Fairfield, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=NRcVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA262&ots=P_OCd4uKAn&dq=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&pg=PA261#v=onepage&q=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&f=false Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California,]" p. 261<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. </del>"In the fall of 1861 J.H. Breed bought his brother's share of the Smoke Creek Station and probably got the part that belonged to [[Fred Hines | Hines]] a little later on. He stayed there the following winter and in the spring sold out to I.J. Harvey who had been employed to buy the property for a United States Army Post During the winter of 1862-63 William V. Kingsbury established a trading post at Smoke Creek and afterwards kept a station or hotel in connection with it. He stayed there until late in the 60's." </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Fairfield, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=NRcVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA262&ots=P_OCd4uKAn&dq=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&pg=PA261#v=onepage&q=%22Smoke%20creek%20station%22%20railroad&f=false Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California,]" </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The 1876 Bancroft map has "Smoke Creek Depot" on the west side of the desert. <ref>[http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~215908~5502250:California,-Nevada,-Utah-And-Arizon Bancroft's Map Of California, Nevada, Utah And Arizona], Published By A.L. Bancroft, & Compy. Booksellers & Stationers San Francisco Cal. 1876.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The 1876 Bancroft map has "Smoke Creek Depot" on the west side of the desert. <ref>[http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~215908~5502250:California,-Nevada,-Utah-And-Arizon Bancroft's Map Of California, Nevada, Utah And Arizona], Published By A.L. Bancroft, & Compy. Booksellers & Stationers San Francisco Cal. 1876.</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* In 1911, The Nevada Historical Society stated: "[[Roop]], which is also known as Smoke Creek is situated in the central portion of Washoe County on its western boundary line one hundred and twenty five miles from Reno.(footnote a: RL Polk & Co Nevada State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1907 1908) Roop was settled about 1860 and took its name from Roop County which was formerly the northern division of what is now Washoe County.(footnote b: Authority of Mr JH Smith Buffalo Meadows Nevada) Roop County in turn took its name from Isaac Roop (Footnote c: Miss MA Taylor of Reno says that Mr Roop had two daughters Jane and Susan for whom Janesville and Susanville in California were named.) who was elected Governor under the Provisional Territorial Government by the people of Western Utah in 1859"<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=HshYAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA92&ots=ABYH-8e1q5&dq=Sheephead%20Spring%20nevada&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q=roop&f=false Biennial Report of the Nevada Historical Society,"] Issue 2, p, 85, 1911.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* In 1911, The Nevada Historical Society stated: "[[Roop]], which is also known as Smoke Creek is situated in the central portion of Washoe County on its western boundary line one hundred and twenty five miles from Reno.(footnote a: RL Polk & Co Nevada State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1907 1908) Roop was settled about 1860 and took its name from Roop County which was formerly the northern division of what is now Washoe County.(footnote b: Authority of Mr JH Smith Buffalo Meadows Nevada) Roop County in turn took its name from Isaac Roop (Footnote c: Miss MA Taylor of Reno says that Mr Roop had two daughters Jane and Susan for whom Janesville and Susanville in California were named.) who was elected Governor under the Provisional Territorial Government by the people of Western Utah in 1859"<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=HshYAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA92&ots=ABYH-8e1q5&dq=Sheephead%20Spring%20nevada&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q=roop&f=false Biennial Report of the Nevada Historical Society,"] Issue 2, p, 85, 1911.</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/hmaps,1138 Township 31 North -- Range 18 East -- Sheet 1 (T31NR18E.1)] (1866) shows Smoke Creek Station.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/hmaps,1138 Township 31 North -- Range 18 East -- Sheet 1 (T31NR18E.1)] (1866) shows Smoke Creek Station.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Helen S. Carlson, "[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nevada_Place_Names/7GyVDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Henry+W.+Williams%22+nevada&pg=PT507&printsec=frontcover Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary,]" p. 219, located about 5 miles east of the California/Nevada Line. This location appears on a 1881 map. and is near [[Robbers Roost]]. Carlson states that the station was established by Lieutenant Henry W. Williams from Fort <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rook </del>California on December 15, 1862. In October 1863, Nevada Volunteers were ordered to replace the California troops and moved to [[Granite Creek Station]]. Smoke Creek Station was abandoned in 1866 (<ref name="Ruhlen">Col. George Ruhlen, "[https://www.onlinenevada.org/sites/default/files/EarlyForts_Ruhlen_1964_Part2.pdf Early Nevada Forts]," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, p. 51, Vol. VII, No. 3-4, 1964.</ref>)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Ruhlen states that Camp (and Depot) Smoke Creek was near the Smoke Creek Station.<ref name="Ruhlen">Col. George Ruhlen, "[https://www.onlinenevada.org/sites/default/files/EarlyForts_Ruhlen_1964_Part2.pdf Early Nevada Forts]," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, p. 51, Vol. VII, No. 3-4, 1964.</ref> Ruhlen also describes Camp Pollock (June-July 1864) as being near Smoke Creek Camp, but that Pollock was on the California-Nevada line that had recently been surveyed.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Helen S. Carlson, "[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nevada_Place_Names/7GyVDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Henry+W.+Williams%22+nevada&pg=PT507&printsec=frontcover Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary,]" p. 219, located about 5 miles east of the California/Nevada Line. This location appears on a 1881 map. and is near [[Robbers Roost]]. Carlson states that the station was established by Lieutenant Henry W. Williams from Fort <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Crook </ins>California on December 15, 1862. In October 1863, Nevada Volunteers were ordered to replace the California troops and moved to [[Granite Creek Station]]. Smoke Creek Station was abandoned in 1866 (<ref name="Ruhlen">Col. George Ruhlen, "[https://www.onlinenevada.org/sites/default/files/EarlyForts_Ruhlen_1964_Part2.pdf Early Nevada Forts]," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, p. 51, Vol. VII, No. 3-4, 1964.</ref>)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Jeffrey D. Johnson, "[http://www.juliacbulette.com/?p=108 Julia’s Unequivocal Nevada Klampout #32]" (2011). Description of Smoke Creek Station, included quotes by [[Joseph Goldsborough Bruff]] and [[Edward Griffin Beckwith]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Jeffrey D. Johnson, "[http://www.juliacbulette.com/?p=108 Julia’s Unequivocal Nevada Klampout #32]" (2011). Description of Smoke Creek Station, included quotes by [[Joseph Goldsborough Bruff]] and [[Edward Griffin Beckwith]]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* In 1911, The Nevada Historical Society stated: "[[Roop]], which is also known as Smoke Creek is situated in the central portion of Washoe County on its western boundary line one hundred and twenty five miles from Reno.(footnote a: RL Polk & Co Nevada State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1907 1908) Roop was settled about 1860 and took its name from Roop County which was formerly the northern division of what is now Washoe County.(footnote b: Authority of Mr JH Smith Buffalo Meadows Nevada) Roop County in turn took its name from Isaac Roop (Footnote c: Miss MA Taylor of Reno says that Mr Roop had two daughters Jane and Susan for whom Janesville and Susanville in California were named.) who was elected Governor under the Provisional Territorial Government by the people of Western Utah in 1859"<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=HshYAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA92&ots=ABYH-8e1q5&dq=Sheephead%20Spring%20nevada&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q=roop&f=false Biennial Report of the Nevada Historical Society,"] Issue 2, p, 85, 1911.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* In 1911, The Nevada Historical Society stated: "[[Roop]], which is also known as Smoke Creek is situated in the central portion of Washoe County on its western boundary line one hundred and twenty five miles from Reno.(footnote a: RL Polk & Co Nevada State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1907 1908) Roop was settled about 1860 and took its name from Roop County which was formerly the northern division of what is now Washoe County.(footnote b: Authority of Mr JH Smith Buffalo Meadows Nevada) Roop County in turn took its name from Isaac Roop (Footnote c: Miss MA Taylor of Reno says that Mr Roop had two daughters Jane and Susan for whom Janesville and Susanville in California were named.) who was elected Governor under the Provisional Territorial Government by the people of Western Utah in 1859"<ref>"[https://books.google.com/books?id=HshYAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA92&ots=ABYH-8e1q5&dq=Sheephead%20Spring%20nevada&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q=roop&f=false Biennial Report of the Nevada Historical Society,"] Issue 2, p, 85, 1911.</ref></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/hmaps,1138 Township 31 North -- Range 18 East -- Sheet 1 (T31NR18E.1)] (1866) shows Smoke Creek Station.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/u?/hmaps,1138 Township 31 North -- Range 18 East -- Sheet 1 (T31NR18E.1)] (1866) shows Smoke Creek Station.</div></td></tr>
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