Hawthorne, NV Road Trips
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Trip Routes
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Longest Drive
318.2 mi
Henderson, NV
Quickest Drive
6h 9m
Henderson, NV
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Hawthorne, NV by the Numbers
Recent demographic snapshot from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Population
2,876
Median Income
$54,604
Median Home Value
$187,100
Median Age
38.8
Source: US Census Bureau ACS 5-year (public domain). See our methodology for details.
Notable People from Hawthorne, NV
A sampling of people born in Hawthorne, NV.
Grant Harvey
1984
American actor
Jim Nash
1945
American baseball player
Landmarks & Historic Sites
Attractions and heritage-registered places located in Hawthorne, NV.
Hawthorne USO Building
place in Nevada listed on National Register of Historic Places
Mineral County Museum
Hawthorne Ordnance Museum
museum in Nevada, United States
City data from Wikidata (Q1776138), available under CC0. Photos from Wikimedia Commons under their respective licenses. See our methodology for details.
Traveler Guide to Hawthorne, NV
Hawthorne is a city of 3,300 people in Nevada at the south end of Walker Lake. Hawthorne and its adjacent former town Babbitt provide housing for the nearby Hawthorne Army Depot (switching to Mapnik on the map settings below clearly demonstrates this). The depot stores munitions in widely-spaced bunkers in reserve for a major conflict.
1 Hawthrone Ordnance Museum, 925 E St., ☏ +1 775-945-5400. M-F 10AM - 4PM, Sa 10AM - 2PM. Free. (updated Oct 2016) 2 Mineral County Museum, 400 10th St. (Corner of 10th and D. St.), ☏ +1 775-945-5142. Free. (updated Oct 2016)
1 El Capitan Lodge and Casino, 540 F St, ☏ +1 775-945-3321, toll-free: +1-800-922-2311. Slots only, no tables (updated May 2019)
Hawthorne is a small, rural town. Don't expect the usual large hotel-casinos of other Nevadan towns. 1 Hawthorne's Best Inn (formerly America's Best Inn & Suites), 1402 E 5th St, ☏ +1 775 945-2660. Check-in: 3PM, check-out: noon. (updated Jan 2021) 2 Travelodge Hawthorne, 540 F St, ☏ +1 775-945-3321. (updated Oct 2017)
The town has its own airport 1 Hawthorne Industrial Airport (HTH IATA), though this facility seems to be used to transport goods rather than passengers. The nearest city with an airport is Reno and therefore the 2 Reno-Tahoe International Airport (RNO IATA) would be recommended for commercial flights.
Travel tips adapted from Hawthorne (Nevada) on Wikivoyage, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Content summarized; visit the source for the full article. See our methodology for how we use it.
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