Jean Pass (north) is one of two

pass Pass, PASS, The Pass or Passed may refer to: Places * Pass, County Meath, a townland in Ireland * Pass, Poland, a village in Poland * Pass, an alternate term for a number of straits: see List of straits * Mountain pass, a lower place in a moun ...

es on the west and northwest of the Jean Dry Lake basin, an endorheic basin bordering

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 ...

. Jean, Nevada is located on

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; the north pass lies on a

water divide A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins. On rugged land, the divide lies along topographical ridges, and may be in the form of a singl ...

about 6 miNevada Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, c. 2010, p. 70-71. northeast of Jean, (a Las Vegas Wash Watershed source point). Jean Pass (south) is west of Jean Dry Lake, and is the pass between the

Bird Spring Range The Bird Spring Range is a mountain range in Clark County, Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the ...

's southeast foothills, and Sheep Mountain (Nevada), , on Jean's east border, and the southwest border of Jean Dry Lake.

Great Basin Divide

The

Great Basin Divide The Great Basin Divide in the western United States is the ridgeline that separates the Great Basin from the Pacific Ocean watershed, which completely surrounds it. The Great Basin is the largest set of contiguous endorheic watersheds of Nor ...

traverses from the

Spring Mountains The Spring Mountains are a mountain range of Southern Nevada in the United States, running generally northwest–southeast along the west side of Las Vegas and south to the border with California. Most land in the mountains is owned by the Uni ...

, and south of the two passes, and Jean Dry Lake, between Roach Lake, further south, in the north section of the

Ivanpah Valley The Ivanpah Valley is in southeastern California and southern Nevada in the United States. The valley is between the New York Mountains and the Ivanpah Mountains in San Bernardino County on the California side, and in Clark County on the Nevada ...

, part of the Ivanpah-Pahrump Watershed.

History

The

Old Spanish National Historic Trail Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England *Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Mai ...

went through the Jean Pass (north). To the south, the trail turned west, then northwest to Goodsprings at the south-southwest of the Bird Spring Range. The trail turned west just north of the Jean Pass (south).

References

Landforms of Clark County, Nevada {{ClarkCountyNV-geo-stub

Great Basin Divide

History

See also

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