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Carlin is a small city in Elko County in northeast Nevada, 23 miles west of the city of Elko along Interstate 80, and it had a population of 2,050 at the 2020 census.

Carlin was named for Civil War general William Passmore Carlin, and its slogan is 'Where the Train Stops... and the Gold Rush Begins'.

Carlin was founded in December 1868 at the eastern terminus of the Central Pacific Railroad's Humboldt Division, which built a roundhouse, machine shops, and a new depot in 1906, and an ice-harvesting industry developed there to supply ice for the railroad's refrigerator cars.

Carlin adopted its first town charter in 1925 and was officially incorporated in 1971, according to the Carlin Historical Society.

The Southern Pacific Railroad maintained the Carlin Shops, a major repair and maintenance center near the depot at the foot of Sixth Street, whose construction began in 1869.

On August 12, 1939, the City of San Francisco train derailed while crossing a bridge near Carlin, killing 24 people and injuring 121, in a wreck that appeared to have been caused by sabotage but remains unsolved.

Carlin lies southeast of the Carlin Trend, one of the most productive gold mining areas in the United States, and mining has been the city's primary industry since Newmont discovered a large deposit of microscopic gold just north of Carlin in the 1960s.

Carlin covers 10.44 square miles, all of it land, and sits at an elevation of about 4,900 feet.

Carlin's population was 825 in 1930, 2,220 in 1990, 2,368 in 2010, and 2,050 in 2020, a decline of 13.4 percent from 2010.

At the 2020 census Carlin had 793 households and 907 housing units, of which 12.6 percent were vacant, and its median age was 38.4 years.