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Beatty is an unincorporated town in Nye County, Nevada, along the Amargosa River, and it had a population of 880 at the 2020 census, down from 1,010 in 2010 and 1,154 in 2000.

As of the 2000 census, there were 535 households in the Beatty census-designated place.

Beatty was established in 1905 and named after Montillus Murray Beatty, a Civil War veteran and miner who settled on a ranch in the Oasis Valley in 1896 and became the town's first postmaster, and it is nicknamed the Gateway to Death Valley.

U.S. Route 95 runs through Beatty, which lies about 90 miles south of Tonopah and about 120 miles southeast of Las Vegas, and State Route 374 connects the town to Death Valley National Park, about 8 miles to the west.

With the arrival of the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad in 1905, Beatty became a railway center for the Bullfrog Mining District, and by October 1907 three railroads served the town, the last of them ceasing operations in 1940.

The ghost town of Rhyolite and the Goldwell Open Air Museum, a sculpture park, are both about 4 miles to the west of Beatty, and Yucca Mountain and the Nevada Test Site are about 18 miles to the east.

Beatty is home to the Beatty Museum and Historical Society, and the Beatty Library is the only library in Nevada that is housed in a geodesic dome.

Beatty Medical Center, which opened in 1977, provides family medicine and other services, and Beatty has a general aviation airfield, Beatty Airport, about 3 miles south of downtown, while Bailey's Hot Springs and bathhouses are about 5 miles north in the Oasis Valley.

Beatty's combined elementary and middle schools serve kindergarten through eighth grade, and Beatty High School serves grades 9 through 12, both part of the Nye County School District.

Under Nevada's Unincorporated Town Government Law, Beatty is governed by the Nye County Commission assisted by the five-member Beatty Town Advisory Board, and the Beatty General Improvement District manages the community's parks, swimming pool, putting course, and other recreational grounds.