Indian Springs Valley (Basin 161) is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins in the
Clark County portion of the
Nevada Test and Training Range and includes
Creech Air Force Base and the communities of
Cactus Springs and
Indian Springs, Nevada
Indian Springs is an unincorporated town and a census-designated place located on U.S. Route 95 next to Creech Air Force Base in northwestern Clark County and southern Nevada.
The population was 991 at the 2010 census.
History
The community wa ...
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The south side of the valley is along the "
Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone",
[ and to the east is the ]Pintwater Range
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, to the southeast is the Las Vegas Valley, to the south are foothills near the Spring Mountains
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, to the southwest is Mercury Valley
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* Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun
* Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg
* Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
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, and to the west is the Spotted Range.[ and is a southern portion of the Sand Springs-Tikaboo Watershed where it meets the Ivanpah-Pahrump Watershedbr>]
The Wheeler Survey in 1869 passed through the Indian Springs Valley.
References
Valleys of Nevada
Valleys of Clark County, Nevada
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