Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bullfrog county

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English

Syllables
bull-frog -coun-ty
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A proposed county in Nye, Nevada, United States. Seat: Bullfrog. A failed proposal from 1909 to split off southern Nye County into a new separate county. This proposed county would also contain the Bullfrog Mining District, and the future failed county of Bullfrog within its territory, and the now ghosttown of Bullfrog.

Etymology

Synonyms

Bullfrog County of Bullfrog

Questions

What does bullfrog county mean?
A former county of Nye, Nevada, United States, containing Yucca Mountain; but having no residents, no buildings, no roads; except for the infrastructure of the U.S. national nuclear waste storage site at Yucca. Bullfrog county, a 12mix12mi square centered around Yucca, was split from Nye County in 1987 and merged back into it in 1989. The county of Bullfrog was completely enclaved inside Nye. The county seat was Carson City, the capital of Nevada, and not located inside Bullfrog.
Where does bullfrog county come from?
bullfrog + county. The county is named after the former mining district of Bullfrog, which was named after the Bullfrog Mining Company, which was named after the Bullfrog Mine, which was named after the color of the gold ore the mine, colored like a bullfrog, which in turn refers the frog.

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