Located at U.S. Highways 6 and 50 at Sacramento Pass. Osceola, most famous of the White Pine County gold producers, was probably the longest-lived placer camp in Nevada. The gold-bearing quartz belt found in 1872 was 12 miles long by seven miles wide. Placer gold was found in 1877 in a deep ravine indenting the area. Osceola was a good business town because of its location near the cattle and grain ranches and gardens in the Spring and Snake Valleys.
Intermittent mining continues.