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Piute Range
The Piute Range is located in the Mojave Desert, primarily in northeast San Bernardino County, California, United States, with a north portion in Nevada. Most of the range is the eastern border of the Mojave National Preserve, a National Park Service natural area and park. Geography The mountains lie to the east of Lanfair Valley and southeast of the New York Mountains and Castle Mountains (California), Castle Mountains, and northeast of the Piute Mountains. They trend in a north-south direction, and form the western perimeter of the north-south Piute Valley which extends north past Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada, Cal-Nev-Ari to Searchlight, Nevada, Searchlight. History Fort Piute, one of a chain of military stations constructed to protect travellers on the Mojave Road from San Bernardino, California, San Bernardino across the Mojave Desert to Fort Mojave on the Colorado River, lies at the southeastern end of the range near Piute Spring (San Bernardino County, California), Piute Spring. 4- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piute Valley
The Piute Valley is a north–south valley southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and northwest of Needles. The north of the valley is at Searchlight, with some of the valley extending northwest from Searchlight. At the center-north lies Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada. The second valley southeast of Las Vegas borders to the north, the endorheic Eldorado Valley, with its dry lake. The next watershed north is the Las Vegas Wash Watershed. The northeast portion of the Mojave National Preserve makes up the northwestern region of the Piute Valley, at a four-valley water divide point. The Piute Valley Watershed is the first watershed southeast of Las Vegas–Lake Mead to meet the Colorado River; the Piute Wash outfall with the Colorado River is in California at Needles. The mountain ranges south of Lake Mead, bordering the river and Lake Mohave are part of the Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed. Piute Valley description Piute Valley is a valley, and about wide at its southern end. It is drained b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |