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History · Goodsprings

Goodsprings’ post office opened in 1899, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Goodsprings was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1986. Its Register listing is the Goodsprings Schoolhouse. Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1960 on.

1899first post office
1on the National Register
8%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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Quick answers

How Goodsprings began

When was Goodsprings founded?

1899

The Goodsprings post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 162127 years
Founding year: the first Goodsprings post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Goodsprings’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Goodsprings’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Goodsprings’s history is told.

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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewGoodsprings Schoolhouse, Late Autumn 20…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Goodsprings came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Goodsprings.

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The town was named for cattle rancher Joseph Good, whose cattle frequented a spring nestled in the southeastern foothills of the Spring Mountains. Mormon miners discovered lead at Potosi Mountain in 1856. Gold was first discovered in the region in 1893. Goodsprings was once the heart of the most productive mining districts in Clark County. Over the years, lead, silver, copper, zinc and gold have all been mined from this area.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Goodsprings, 1899 to 1960

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1899Post officeThe Goodsprings post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1960Post officeThe Goodsprings post office closes
  5. 1960On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Goodsprings, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Goodsprings Schoolhouse, Late Autumn 2025 - MG 7741-PanoDate?Goodsprings Schoolhouse, Late Autumn 2025 - MG 7741-P…
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Pioneer Saloon, Nevada2024Pioneer Saloon, NevadaHistoric Pioneer Saloon Good Springs Nevada2017Historic Pioneer Saloon Good Springs NevadaHistoric Pioneer Saloon Good Springs Nevada B&W2017Historic Pioneer Saloon Good Springs Nevada B&WThe Pioneer Saloon marker2013The Pioneer Saloon markerComté de Clark-GoodSpring (22)2013Comté de Clark-GoodSpring (22)Comté de Clark-GoodSpring (18)2013Comté de Clark-GoodSpring (18)Comté de Clark-GoodSpring (17)2013Comté de Clark-GoodSpring (17)Goodsprings Schoolhouse2012Goodsprings SchoolhouseLocal elementary school in2010Local elementary school inHistorical ruin "declared mercantile area" in2010Historical ruin "declared mercantile area" inFirestation at2010Firestation atDistant views across the Mojave Desert2010Distant views across the Mojave DesertGoodsprings Valley 12006Goodsprings Valley 1Goodsprings Nevada Pioneer Saloon 42006Goodsprings Nevada Pioneer Saloon 4Goodsprings Nevada Pioneer Saloon 32006Goodsprings Nevada Pioneer Saloon 3Goodsprings Nevada Pioneer Saloon 22006Goodsprings Nevada Pioneer Saloon 2Goodsprings Nevada Pioneer Saloon 12006Goodsprings Nevada Pioneer Saloon 1Goodsprings Nevada 62006Goodsprings Nevada 6Goodsprings Nevada 52006Goodsprings Nevada 5Goodsprings Nevada 42006Goodsprings Nevada 4Goodsprings Nevada 32006Goodsprings Nevada 3Goodsprings Nevada 12006Goodsprings Nevada 1
On the map

Goodsprings on the map, 1960 to 1989

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Goodsprings. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Goodsprings on the 1960 USGS mapGoodsprings on the 1989 USGS map1960Goodsprings sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Goodsprings.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Goodsprings Schoolhouse, Late Autumn 2025 - MG 7741-Pano
Retake this viewGoodsprings Schoolhouse, Late Autumn 2025 - MG 7741-Pano

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Goodsprings’ page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Goodsprings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1992
Goodsprings Schoolhouse
Goodsprings Schoolhouse
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Colonial Revival1
Goodsprings SchoolhouseColonial Revival

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Goodsprings

Nobody well known was born in Goodsprings itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Andre AgassiAmerican tennis player · b. 1970
Daveigh ChaseAmerican actress · b. 1990
Matthew Gray GublerAmerican actor, filmmaker and model · b. 1980
Dan ReynoldsAmerican singer · b. 1987
Charisma CarpenterAmerican actress · b. 1970
Brandon FlowersAmerican indie rock singer · b. 1981
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Goodsprings had its own post office from 1899 to 1960.

Goodsprings
1899–1960
18901960today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Goodsprings’ history

What year was Goodsprings founded?

The Goodsprings post office opened in 1899, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Goodsprings?

One place: the Goodsprings Schoolhouse (listed 1992).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (23), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.