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Gerlach Water Tower

United States

The 186th tallest tower in the world

m

The Gerlach Water Tower, on Main Street in Gerlach, Nevada, was built in 1909 by the Utah Construction Company. It has a 44,000 US gallons (170, 000 L, 37, 000 imp gal) capacity redwood tank. It served locomotives of the Western Pacific Railroad Company and also the company town of Gerlach. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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