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Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, 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 southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...

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ism is shown in the landforms of central and eastern Nevada. The most common valley name is Antelope Valley which is used for 5 different areas in Douglas, Elko/White Pine, Eureka, Lander, and Washoe Counties.

Churchill County

Carson Sink Carson Sink is a playa in the northeastern portion of the Carson Desert in present-day Nevada, United States of America, that was formerly the terminus of the Carson River. Today the sink is fed by drainage canals of the Truckee-Carson Irrigat ...

* Copper Valley (Churchill-Pershing Counties) *

Dixie Valley The Dixie Valley is an endorheic basin which had plentiful ground water (free-flowing artesian wells) around which ranches were built. Prior to the US Navy TOPGUN school moving from California to Nevada, the valley was purchased in 1995 for $10 ...

(Churchill-Pershing Counties) * Edwards Creek Valley * Fairview Valley * Granite Springs Valley (Churchill-Pershing Counties) *

Lahontan Valley The Lahontan Valley is a basin in Churchill County, Nevada, United States. The valley is a landform of the central portion of the prehistoric Lake Lahontan's lakebed of 20,000-9,000 years ago. The valley and the adjacent Carson Sink represent a ...

* North Valley * Stingaree Valley * Wyemaha Valley

Clark County

Bitter Spring Valley The Bitter Spring Valley is a 13-mile (21 km) longNevada DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, pp. 70-71. valley located northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada on the west edge of Lake Mead, on the north-trending Overton Arm, (of the Virgin River, and Meadow ...

* Cottonwood Valley * Cottonwood Valley (Mojave Co., Arizona/Clark Co., Nevada) * Dry Lake Valley *

Eldorado Valley Eldorado Valley, or El Dorado Valley, is a Great Basin valley in the Mojave Desert southeast of Las Vegas and southwest of Boulder City, Nevada. The valley is endorheic, containing the Eldorado Dry Lake. The Great Basin Divide, transects ridgelines ...

* Goodsprings Valley * Green Valley * Hidden Valley * Indian Springs Valley (Nevada) (Clark-Lincoln Counties) *

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 ...

Las Vegas Valley The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the Southern Nevada, southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States. The state's largest urban agglomeration, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Stat ...

Mercury Valley Mercury commonly refers to: * Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun * Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg * Mercury (mythology), a Roman god Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to: Companies * Mercury ...

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Moapa Valley Moapa Valley is an unincorporated town in Clark County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 6,924. The valley in which the community lies, also named Moapa Valley, is about long and lies roughly northwest to sou ...

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Pahrump Valley Pahrump Valley is a Mojave Desert valley west of Las Vegas and the Spring Mountains massif in southern Nye County, Nevada, and eastern San Bernardino County, California. Pahrump, Nevada, is in the valley's center and the Tecopa and Chicago Valley ...

(Clark-Nye Counties) * Paradise Valley (Clark County) * Pinto Valley *

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, ...

* Spring Valley * Three Lakes Valley (Clark-Lincoln Counties) *

Virgin Valley The Virgin Valley is a valley in northwest Arizona and southeast Nevada on the Virgin River. The Virgin River drains southwest Utah and southeast Nevada; parts of Arizona, especially the Arizona Strip region drain southwards into the Virgin River ...

Douglas County

Antelope Valley The Antelope Valley is located in northern Los Angeles County, California, and the southeast portion of Kern County, California, and constitutes the western tip of the Mojave Desert. It is situated between the Tehachapi, Sierra Pelona, and the ...

(Douglas County) * Carson Valley * Heavenly Valley North * Jacks Valley * Mineral Valley

Elko County Elko County is a county in the northeastern corner of Nevada, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 53,702. Its county seat is Elko. The county was established on March 5, 1869, from Lander County. Elko County is the fourth ...

(Elko-White Pine Counties) * Butte Valley (Elko County) *

Clover Valley (Nevada) The Clover Valley of Nevada, is a 37-mile (60 km) long valley located in central-southeast Elko County. Wells, Nevada lies at its north end, on I-80. Clover Valley lies at the east flank of the mostly north-trending East Humboldt Range, ...

* Duck Valley *

Goshute Valley The Goshute Valley is an endorheic landform of the Great Basin in Elko County, Nevada, United States. Description The towns of Oasis and Cobre are in the valley's north, and the central and north of the valley contains broken flatlands, with sho ...

* Huntington Valley (Elko-White Pine Counties) * Independence Valley (northwestern Elko County, Nevada) * Independence Valley (eastern Elko County, Nevada) * Lamoille Valley *

Pilot Creek Valley An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls. Some other aircrew members, such as navigators or flight engineers, are also considered aviators, because they a ...

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Ruby Valley {{coord, 40.400, -115.300, display=title Ruby Valley is a large basin located in south-central Elko and northern White Pine counties in the northeastern section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. From Secret Pass it runs south-s ...

(Elko-White Pine Counties) * Squaw Valley (Nevada) * Starr Valley * Steptoe Valley (Elko-White Pine Counties) *

Tecoma Valley (Nevada-Utah) ''Tecoma'' is a genus of 14 species of shrubs or small trees in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae. Twelve species are from the Americas, while the other two species are African. The American species range from the extreme southern United S ...

* Thousand Springs Valley

Esmeralda County Esmeralda County is a county in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 729, making it the least populous county in Nevada. Esmeralda County does not have any incorporated communities. Its ...

Big Smoky Valley The Big Smoky Valley is a landform of the Tonopah Basin between the Toiyabe and Toquima mountain ranges. It is about 100 miles (160 km) in length. Big Smoky Valley was so named on account of haze which frequently settles there. It is known ...

(Esmeralda-Lander-Nye Counties) * Cirac Valley * Clayton Valley, (at

Silver Peak, Nevada Silver Peak (also Silverpeak) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States. It lies along State Route 265, south of U.S. Route 6 and west of Goldfield, the county seat of Esmeralda ...

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Fish Lake Valley The Fish Lake Valley is a longNevada, DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, c 2010, p. 58-59. endorheic valley in southwest Nevada, one of many contiguous inward-draining basins collectively called the Great Basin. The alluvial valley lies just northwes ...

* Lida Valley * Monte Cristo Valley (Esmeralda-Mineral Counties) * Montezuma Valley

Eureka County Eureka County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 1,855, making it the second-least populous county in Nevada. Its county seat is Eureka, Nevada, E ...

(Eureka County) * Boulder Valley, (at Dunphy, Nevada) * Crescent Valley * Denay Valley * Diamond Valley * Fish Creek Valley (Eureka-White Pine Counties) * Garden Valley (Eureka County) * Grass Valley (Lander-Eureka Counties) * Kobeh Valley *

Little Smoky Valley Little Smoky Valley is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins and an eponym for the larger Little Smoky-Newark Watershed. The valley spans three counties in Nevada, namely Eureka, Nye, and White Pine. The valley's numerous springs include Cool ...

(Eureka-Nye-White Pine Counties) * Pine Valley (Nevada), (at

Cortez Mountains The Cortez Mountains are located in north central Nevada in the United States. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction between Crescent Valley and Pine Valley. Mount Tenabo is the principal peak of the range, at 9,153 feet above sea l ...

** Horse Creek Valley

Humboldt County

* Bog Hot Valley * Buffalo Valley (Humboldt-Lander-Pershing Counties) * Desert Valley (Humboldt County) * Eden Valley *

Grass Valley A grass valley (also vega and valle) is a meadow located within a forested and relatively small drainage basin such as a headwater. Grass valleys are common in North America, where they are created and maintained principally by the work of b ...

(Humboldt-Pershing Counties) *

Hualapai Flat Hualapai Flat (pronounced "wall-a-pie") is a valley in northwestern Nevada, USA, located northwest of the Black Rock Desert. The two valleys are separated by the Calico Hills. The Granite Range marks the southern and western edges of Hualapai Fl ...

* Kings River Valley * Paradise Valley (Humboldt County) * Pueblo Valley * Pumpernickel Valley * Quinn River Valley * Silver State Valley

Lander County Lander County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,734. Its county seat is Battle Mountain. History Lander County was created in 1862 as the result of a mining boom on the Reese River along the ...

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(Esmeralda-Lander-Nye Counties) * Boulder Valley, (at Dunphy, Nevada) (Eureka-Lander Counties) * Buffalo Valley (Humboldt-Lander-Pershing Counties) * Carico Lake Valley * Crescent Valley (Eureka-Lander Counties) * Grass Valley (Eureka-Lander Counties) * Monitor Valley (Lander-Nye Counties) * Reese River Valley (Lander-Nye Counties) * Smith Creek Valley

Lincoln County

* Cave Valley (Nevada) * Coal Valley * Coyote Springs Valley *

Delamar Valley Delamar Valley is one of the central Nevada desert basins and the southern portion of the Dry Lake Watershed, including a low point on the serpentine section of the Great Basin Divide The Great Basin Divide in the western United States is th ...

* Desert Valley (Lincoln County) * Dry Valley (Lincoln County) * Dry Lake Valley * Emigrant Valley * Garden Valley *

Hamlin Valley Hamlin Valley is a mostly north-south trending valley of the Great Basin located on both sides of the Nevada–Utah state line. It is about long. Its north-northeast end point adjacent the state line, is the southwest start region of the Snake ...

* Indian Springs Valley (Nevada) (Clark-Lincoln Counties) * Kane Springs Valley * Lake Valley (Nevada) * Meadow Valley, (at Indian Cove, Nevada) * Muleshoe Valley *

Pahranagat Valley The Pahranagat Valley is a Tonopah Basin landform in Lincoln County, Nevada. The more fertile part of Pahranagat Valley is a narrow ribbon of green (no more than wide) like an oasis in the vast Nevada desert. It is approximately long running nor ...

* Sand Spring Valley *

Spring Valley (White Pine County, Nevada) Spring Valley is a long north south trending basin, largely in White Pine County, Nevada and a small portion in the extreme south in Lincoln County, Nevada Lincoln County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. ...

(White Pine-Lincoln Counties) * Three Lakes Valley (Clark-Lincoln Counties) * Tikaboo Valley *

Tule Desert (Nevada) The Tule Desert is located in southeastern Nevada in Lincoln County, near the Utah state line. The desert lies northeast of the Mormon Mountains, south of the Clover Mountains and west of the Tule Springs Hills.''Clover Mts, Nev.–Utah,'' 30x60 ...

, (at Tule Springs Hills,

Clover Mountains The Clover Mountains are a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada. The Clover Mountains Wilderness makes up a large part of the mountain range. The Clover Mountains are the southern mountains on the east perimeter of the Meadow Valley Wash ...

) * White River Valley (Lincoln-Nye-White Pine Counties)

Lyon County

* Adrian Valley * Campbell Valley (Lyon-Mineral County) * Churchill Valley * Mason Valley * Smith Valley (Lyon County)

Mineral County

* Alkali Valley * Aurora Valley * Campbell Valley (Lyon-Mineral County) * Gabbs Valley (Mineral-Nye Counties) * Huntoon Valley * Long Valley (Mineral County) * Monte Cristo Valley (Esmeralda-Mineral Counties) * Soda Springs Valley, ( Luning, NV, Tonopah Junction, NV) * Stewart Valley (Nevada) * Queen Valley * Walker Lake Valley * Walker River Valley * Win Wan Valley

Nye County Nye County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,591. Its county seat is Tonopah. At , Nye is Nevada's largest county by area and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States, behi ...

Amargosa Valley The Amargosa Valley is the valley through which the Amargosa River flows south, in Nye County, southwestern Nevada and Inyo County in the state of California. The south end is alternately called the "Amargosa River Valley'" or the "Tecopa Valley." ...

, Amargosa Valley, NV * Big Sand Springs Valley *

(Esmeralda-Lander-Nye Counties) * Cactus Flat * Coal Valley (Lincoln-Nye Counties) * Duckwater Valley * East Stone Cabin Valley * Emigrant Valley * Gabbs Valley (Mineral-Nye Counties) * Garden Valley (Lincoln-Nye County) * Hot Creek Valley * Ione Valley *

* Kawich Valley * Little Fish Lake Valley *

(Eureka-Nye-White Pine Counties) * Lodi Valley *

* Mid Valley * Monitor Valley (Lander-Nye Counties) * Monotony Valley *

Oasis Valley Oasis Valley is a valley in the Amargosa Desert near Beatty in Nye County, western Nevada. The valley forms part of the southern drainage of Pahute Mesa. The Amargosa River flows through the Oasis Valley between the Bare Mountains and the Bullfro ...

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Beatty, Nevada Beatty ( ) is an unincorporated town along the Amargosa River in Nye County in the U.S. state of Nevada. U.S. Route 95 runs through the town, which lies between Tonopah, about to the north and Las Vegas, about to the southeast. State Route 37 ...

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Railroad Valley Railroad Valley is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins in the Tonopah Basin and is about long north-south and up to wide, with some southern areas running southwest to northeast. Description The southern end of the valley begins near Gra ...

(Nye-White Pine Counties) * Ralston Valley * Reese River Valley (Lander-Nye Counties) * Reveille Valley * Rock Valley * Sand Springs Valley * Stewart Valley * Stone Cabin Valley * West Stone Cabin Valley * White River Valley (Lincoln-Nye-White Pine Counties)

Pershing County Pershing County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,650. Its county seat is Lovelock. The county was named after army general John J. Pershing (1860–1948). It was formed from Humboldt County ...

Buena Vista Valley The Buena Vista Valley is an approximately long valley located in central-east Pershing County, Nevada. Unionville, Nevada lies at its northwest, at the foothills of the Humboldt Range. The valley contains the approximately long Buena Vista ...

* Buffalo Valley (Lander-Humboldt-Pershing Counties) * Desert Valley (Humboldt-Pershing Counties) * Granite Springs Valley (Churchill-Pershing Counties) *

(Humboldt-Pershing Counties) *

* Jersey Valley * Kurniva Valley * Lower Valley (Churchill-Pershing Counties) * Pleasant Valley (Pershing County) * Poito Valley * Sage Valley * Sage Hen Valley * Upper Valley

Washoe County

* Antelope Valley (Washoe County) * Cold Springs Valley * Dry Valley (Washoe County) * Golden Valley * Guano Valley * Honey Lake Valley * Hungry Valley *

* Lemmon Valley * Long Valley (Washoe County) * Mosquito Valley * Spanish Springs Valley * Sun Valley * Winnemucca Valley *

Washoe Valley (Nevada) The Washoe Valley is a geographical region in the United States covering in southern Washoe County in the state of Nevada. Located between Reno and Carson City, it is named for the Washoe people, Native Americans who lived there before the arr ...

White Pine County White Pine County is a largely rural, mountain county along the central eastern boundary of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,030. Its county seat is Ely. The name "(Rocky Mountain) white pine" is an old ...

(Elko-White Pine Counties) * Butte Valley (White Pine County) * Duck Creek Valley * Huntington Valley (Elko-White Pine Counties) * Jakes Valley *

* Long Valley (White Pine County) * Newark Valley (Nevada) * Pleasant Valley (White Pine County), (at

Kern Mountains The Kern Mountains are a mountain range primarily on the eastern edge of White Pine County, Nevada, United States, but extending slightly east into western Juab County, Utah. Description The range lies between the Antelope Valley on the northwes ...

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(Nye-White Pine Counties) *

(Elko-White Pine Counties) * Smith Valley (White Pine County) * Snake Valley *

Steptoe Valley The Steptoe Valley is a long basin located in White Pine County, in northeastern Nevada in the western United States. From the historic community of Currie, the valley runs south for approximately 100 miles (160 km). To the west are the ...

(Elko-White Pine Counties) * White River Valley (Lincoln-Nye-White Pine Counties)

References

{{reflist * Benchmark Maps. ''Nevada Road & Recreation Atlas''. Benchmark Maps, c. 2010, 96 pp. * DeLorme. ''Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer'', DeLorme, c. 2010, 72 pp.

Valleys A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...