Surviving buildings at the ghost town of Cobre, Nevada, September 2007.

Cobre is an uninhabited ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States. A ghost town is a Town or City that has been abandoned usually because the economic activity that supported it has failed or due to natural or human-caused Elko County is located in the western US state of Nevada. As of the 2000 census, the population was 45291 The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The town was located at the former interchange point between the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Nevada Northern Railway, and came into being when construction of the Nevada Northern began in 1905. The Nevada Northern Railway was a Railroad in the US state of Nevada, built primarily to provide rail access to a major Copper producing area The Nevada Northern was constructed primarily to serve the copper mines and smelter near Ely, Nevada, and cobre is the Spanish word for "copper. Copper (ˈkɒpɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol Cu (cuprum and Atomic number 29 Ely (pronounced, rhyming with "freely" is a city in White Pine County, Nevada, in the United States. "

A post office was established at Cobre in 1906, and it was discontinued in 1956.