The Quinn Canyon Range is a remote group of mountains in northeastern

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, and western Lincoln County in central

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in the western

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. Adaven is the only settlement in the mountains, now abandoned. It is closely associated with the

Grant Range The Grant Range is a mountain chain in east-central Nevada in the western United States. It runs for approximately 30 miles (50 km) in a generally north-south direction in northeastern Nye County. It is located south of the Horse Range and ...

, which connects to it at the mountain pass of Cherry Creek Summit . From there, the range runs for approximately 33 miles to the southwest. To the west is the large

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 ...

, to the east is White River Valley, and to the south is Sand Spring Valley. The high point of the range is an unnamed peak at at .Badger Gulch Quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada, 7.5 series Topographic map, USGS, 1985, 38115-A6-TF-024 The Quinn Canyon and Grant Ranges are adjacent to the

Basin and Range National Monument Basin and Range National Monument is a national monument of the United States spanning approximately of remote, undeveloped mountains and valleys in Lincoln and Nye counties in southeastern Nevada.

created by President

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in 2015, being excellent examples of the

Great Basin The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic basin, endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets, in North America. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja California ...

and the

Basin and Range Province The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico. It is defined by unique basin and range topography, characterized by abrupt changes in elevation, alternating ...

. The higher elevations of the range are protected as the

Quinn Canyon Wilderness The Quinn Canyon Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Quinn Canyon Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. The Quinn Canyon Wilderness covers an area of , and is administered by ...

. The sagebrush cinquefoil (''Potentilla johnstonii'') is a rare species of plant that has only been seen in the Quinn Canyon Range.''Potentilla johnstonii''.
The Nature Conservancy. The range hosts only one settlement, now a ghost town; called Adaven.

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* Mountain ranges of Nevada Mountain ranges of the Great Basin Mountain ranges of Nye County, Nevada Mountain ranges of Lincoln County, Nevada {{NyeCountyNV-geo-stub