Johntown is a ghost town in Lyon County, Nevada United States.

It was originally an important mining camp in Gold Canyon, midway between Dayton, Nevada and Silver City.

In the late 1850s, Johntown was the largest mining camp in the western Utah Territory.

[1] For the next 10 years, miners worked the area, "sluicing the placer deposits with primitive rockers and long toms, recovering limited amounts of gold."

In June of that year, Gold Hill was the site where the Comstock silver discoveries were made.