The Antelope Valley of southern

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is a small 35 mi (56 km) longNevada Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, c. 2010, p. 46-47. valley, surrounded by four mountain ranges. Antelope Wash flows north, to

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flatlands at the valley's north end.

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lies 20 mi east nestled among mountain ranges. From Eureka

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travels west through the north end of the valley on a route to

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Antelope Valley is about long, north-south trending, and lies at the northeast foothills of the extensive north-south Monitor Range. The southeast portion is within the Toiyabe National Forest. Antelope Valley begins as Antelope Wash in northern

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between the Monitor Range and the Antelope Range. The headwaters of the valley begin as a narrow mountain valley on the north side of a water divide about south of the Nye-Eureka line. Antelope Valley broadens to about wide at about to the north. Thereafter Antelope Valley merges with the Monitor Valley from the west and the Kobeh Valley from the north to become a broad basin between the

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and Simpson Park ranges to the west,

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to the north and the

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, Fish Creek and Mountain Boy ranges to the southeast. The combined valleys form a broad basin about in diameter.''Simpson Peak Mts., Nevada,'' 30x60 Minute Series Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1979''Summit Mountain, Nevada,'' 30x60 Minute Series Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1978 The isolated Lone Mountain within the southeastern portion of the valley separates Antelope and Kobeh valleys. Lone Mountain is about in diameter at its base and reaches an elevation of at its peak. This is about 1900 feet above the valley floor.''Hay Ranch, Nevada'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1986''Bartine Ranch, Nevada'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1986 Stream drainage from Antelope Wash and from a number of streams from the Roberts Mountains merge to the southwest of Lone Mountain to form Slough Creek which flows to the east to disappear in Hay Meadow just to the southeast of Lone Mountain making the combined valley an

system. Slough Creek re-emerges about to the east to continue through the narrow Devils Gate pass alongside highway 50. The pass is a narrow wide gap between Whistler Mountain to the north and the north end of the Mountain Boy Range to the south.''Devon Peak, Nevada'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1986

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{{Great Basin watersheds, state=collapsed Valleys of Nevada Valleys of Eureka County, Nevada