One of McGill's three fringe towns established by people that did not want to live in the segregated company town. Steptoe City never had electric service and the residents had to haul water from a single spigot provided by the copper company. A fire in 1926 destroyed most of Steptoe City. A few dilapidated buildings and foundations remain on the site but there is no public access available. Shermantown annexed this milling settlement and it did not have a separate development other than several smelting works.
Some rock ruins remain.
T15N R64E Section 10. Mining here has always been intermittent. In 1880, a body of silver ore was discovered. After Cherry Creek and Ward declined by 1883, buildings were moved to Taylor. Soon, the White Pine Reflex newspaper, butcher shops, restaurants, boarding houses, a drugstore, opera house, brewery, post office, a brass band and school were established.