According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.86 square miles (2.23 km2), all of it land.

After his time in the Silver Valley of Idaho, he followed the mining booms to South Africa, British Columbia, and the Klondike; he published his autobiography in 1900 and died in El Paso, Texas in 1905.

[citation needed] Hard rock miners in Shoshone County protested wage cuts with a strike in 1892.

After several lost their lives in a shooting war provoked by discovery of a company spy, the U.S. army forced an end to the strike.

Hostilities erupted once again in 1899 when, in response to the company firing seventeen men for joining the union, the miners dynamited the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill.

[citation needed] The gondola for the Silver Mountain ski resort passes over the town.

About 14.0% of families and 12.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under the age of eighteen and 6.5% of those sixty five or over.