Pioche (/ˌpiˈoʊtʃ/) is an unincorporated town[3] in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States, approximately 180 miles (290 km) northeast of Las Vegas.

The settlers abandoned the area when local Indian tribes launched a series of raids and massacres.

In 1872, Tom and Ed Newland hired gunmen to take over the very profitable mine owned by William H. Raymond and John Ely.

They in turn hired four more men who during a raid in the middle of the night killed one of the guards and drove off the remainder.

One of the four hired gunmen, Michael Casey, killed miner Tom Gossen after refusing to pay interest on a $100 loan.

The coldest month has been January 1949 with a mean maximum of 27.7 °F (−2.4 °C), although in a normal winter only 10.3 afternoons will not top freezing.

The original cost of $88,000 far exceeded initial estimates and was financed, and refinanced with bonds totaling nearly $1 million.

[14][15] Next door to the courthouse sits the old Mountain View Hotel, where President Herbert Hoover is said to have stayed in 1930.

The abandoned tramway used cables which still stretch over parts of the town, with some original ore buckets intact.