The Ivanpah Valley is in southeastern

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and southern

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in the

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. The valley is between the

New York Mountains The New York Mountains are a small mountain range found in northeastern San Bernardino County in California, USA. The range's northeastern area lies in southeastern Nevada. The range lies just south of the small community of Ivanpah, and north ...

and the Ivanpah Mountains in

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on the California side, and in Clark County on the Nevada side. The communities of

Cima, California Cima (Spanish for "Summit") is a small unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, in the United States. It lies in a mountain pass on the divide between the Ivanpah Valley and the Mojave River basin, at ...

;

Nipton, California Nipton is an unincorporated community in the Ivanpah Valley in San Bernardino County, California. With a population of about 15 – 20, it is located on the northeastern border of Mojave National Preserve, approximately southeast of Primm, Nev ...

;

Jean, Nevada Jean is a small commercial town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, located approximately north of the Nevada–California state line along Interstate 15. Las Vegas is located about to the north. There are no residents of Jean, making it th ...

; and

Primm, Nevada Primm (formerly known as State Line) is an unincorporated community in Clark County, Nevada, United States, primarily notable for its position straddling Interstate 15 where it crosses the state border between California and Nevada. It sits on ...

are in the valley. The

Ivanpah Dry Lake Ivanpah Lake is a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California on the border of California and Nevada. Nestled in the Ivanpah Valley near Primm on Interstate 15, the lake is almost entirely within California. At the no ...

, a popular place for land sailing, and the site of the proposed Ivanpah Valley Airport also lie in the valley. The headwaters of the valley lie in the south and southeast in the north of the

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; the southeast of the valley is a water divide point at the south of the

McCullough Range The mountains in the McCullough Range lie mostly above the city of Henderson in the U.S. state of Nevada. The range has two distinct areas with the northern portion being primarily volcanic in origin, while the southern part of the range is prim ...

, with four valleys, and four mountain ranges. (The

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 ...

drains southeast into the

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; the Eldorado Valley northeast is

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References

Mojave National Preserve Valleys of the Mojave Desert Valleys of Nevada Valleys of San Bernardino County, California Valleys of California Valleys of Clark County, Nevada {{ClarkCountyNV-geo-stub

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