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The Mount Irish Range is a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada. The range is bounded by the Coal Valley to the north, the
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 n ...
to the east, the Tikaboo Valley to the southwest and the Wild Horse Valley to the northwest. Surrounding ranges include the Seaman Range and
Hiko Range The Hiko Range is a mountain range in Lincoln County, 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 east, the Pahranagat Range and East Pahranagat Range to the south and south east, the Groom Range to the southwest, the
Timpahute Range The Timpahute Range is a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada Lincoln County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the population was 5,345. Its county se ...
to the west and the
Golden Gate Range The Golden Gate Range is a mountain range in northwest Lincoln, and eastern Nye counties Nevada.''Timpaute Range, Nevada,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1988''Quinn Canyon Range, Nevada,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, ...
across Murphy Gap to the northwest. Silver was mined on the east flank of Mount Irish along Silver Canyon just north of the ghost town of
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in the 1860s and 1870s. The ghost town of Crystal Springs also populated during this time lies about to the east at the intersection of
US Route 93 U.S. Route 93 (US 93) is a major north–south numbered highway in the western United States. The southern terminus is at US 60 in Wickenburg, Arizona. The northern terminus is at the Canadian border north of Eureka in Lincoln Coun ...
, Nevada Route 318 and Nevada Route 375. The community of
Hiko Hiko may refer to: * Hiko, Nevada * the male or gender neutral version of Hime * Hiko (juggling), juggling in Tongan dance, see Ula (dance) * Mount Hiko in Japan {{disambiguation ...
lies five miles north of Crystal Springs on Route 318. Route 375 crosses the extreme south end of the range at Hancock Summit. The Mount Irish Wilderness lies to the south of Mount Irish and consists of 28,274 acres of the range. Designated by the U.S. Congress in 2004, the area is managed by the
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. Elevations range from 4,800 feet (1463 m) to 7,504 feet (2287 m). The Mount Irish Archaeological District consists of four sites on Logan Canyon Road just to the east of the old Logan townsite and just north of the Mount Irish Wilderness Area boundary.


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* {{Authority control Mountain ranges of Lincoln County, Nevada Mountain ranges of Nevada North American 2000 m summits