39° 30' 08"N, 119° 02' 34"W - HAZEN quad

Unknown. I imagine- from the name- that there was some mining going on here and it continues today as at least a distribution point for the same stuff. There were some buildings here at one time but haven't really researched it yet.

UPDATE September 2010: Larry writes in and says: " Bango was a railroad section station.  Crews worked from this station (section hands)  Bango was in use until about 1960. A number of the childen still live in the Fallon and Reno area.  The one I hunted ducks on the canel with is around 72 years old.

The remains of some concrete foundations and various rubble and small dumps. As you can see in the picture, diatomaceous earth is apparently still loaded from this point, and I'm fairly certain there are d.e. mines in the area somewhere.