The Meadow Valley Mountains is a mountain range in Lincoln and

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counties in southern

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. The range is a narrow north to northeast trending ridgeline with a length of about . The

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 wa ...

lie to the north, Meadow Valley Wash and the

Mormon Mountains The Mormon Mountains are located in Lincoln and Clark counties in Nevada, between 16 and northwest of Mesquite on I–15 in the Virgin Valley, east of the Meadow Valley Mountains and Meadow Valley and northeast of Moapa Valley.''Overton, Nevada� ...

to the east, the

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 ...

to the southeast,

Arrow Canyon Range The Arrow Canyon Range is a small, narrow Basin and Range faulted mountain range that runs south to north in Clark County, Nevada, United States. Its length is approximately 25 miles at a latitude 36˚35' - 36˚47', and its width is roughly 7 mil ...

to the south,

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to the southwest and the Kane Springs Valley and

Delamar Mountains The Delamar Mountains are a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada, named after Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar. The range extends for approximately in a NNE–SSW orientation with a width of about . Surrounding ranges include the Burnt Spring ...

to the west and northwest.''Clover Mts., Nevada–Utah,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1978''Overton, Nevada–Arizona,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1987 Established in 2004 by the U.S. Congress and managed by the U.S.

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, the bulk of the range lies within the Meadow Valley Range Wilderness. The

wilderness area Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

consists of three major landforms: the long ridgeline of the Meadow Valley Mountains, a large bajada beginning high on the main ridge sloping easterly towards

Meadow Valley Wash The Meadow Valley Wash is a southern Nevada stream draining the Meadow Watershed that is bordered on three sides by the Great Basin Divide. The wash's Lincoln County head point is in the Wilson Creek Range, and the wash includes two upper conf ...

, and finally the

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five miles from the southern section of the central bajada. Conical Sunflower Mountain (elevation ) sits astride the main ridgeline.Meadow Valley Range Wilderness Area
- Wilderness Connect

References

External links

Meadow Valley Range Wilderness
- Friends of Nevada Wilderness
Photos of Meadow Valley Range Wilderness
by BLM Mountain ranges of Nevada Mountain ranges of Lincoln County, Nevada Wilderness areas of Nevada {{LincolnCountyNV-geo-stub