A496, State Route 375, Nevada, USA, the Extraterrestrial Highway, 2016

Railroad Valley is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins in the

Tonopah Basin The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin a ...

and is about long north-south and up to wide, with some southern areas running southwest to northeast.

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The southern end of the valley begins near Gray Top Mountain (elevation ) and stretches north all the way to Mount Hamilton (elevation ). To the east are the Quinn Canyon,

Grant Grant or Grants may refer to: Places *Grant County (disambiguation) Australia * Grant, Queensland, a locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia United Kingdom *Castle Grant United States * Grant, Alabama *Grant, Inyo County, C ...

, and

White Pine ''Pinus'', the pines, is a genus of approximately 111 extant tree and shrub species. The genus is currently split into two subgenera: subgenus ''Pinus'' (hard pines), and subgenus ''Strobus'' (soft pines). Each of the subgenera have been further ...

Ranges, while to the west are the

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and Reveille Ranges. Most of the valley lies in

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 ...

, but it crosses into White Pine County at its northern end.Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, 2001, pgs. 47, 55, and 61 The valley includes numerous springs including Kate Springs and Blue Eagle Spring

ranches such as the Blue Eagle Ranch, and 2 Tonopah Basin, Tonopah Playas. The valley has 4 separate

Wildlife Management Area A Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is a protected area set aside for the conservation of wildlife and for recreational activities involving wildlife. New Zealand There are 11 Wildlife Management Areas in New Zealand: * Horsham Downs Wildlife Ma ...

s ("Railroad Valley WMA"), and valley communities include Currant, Crows Nest, Green Springs, Lockes, and Nyala. Most of Nevada's oil production (totalling about 553,000 barrels during 2002) comes from several small oil fields in Railroad Valley, including Eagle Springs, Trap Spring, and Grant Canyon oil fields. The valley is the ancestral home of the Tsaidüka band of

Western Shoshone Western Shoshone comprise several Shoshone tribes that are indigenous to the Great Basin and have lands identified in the Treaty of Ruby Valley 1863. They resided in Idaho, Nevada, California, and Utah. The tribes are very closely related cultural ...

, who are now enrolled in the

Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Western Shoshone, based in central Nevada in the high desert Railroad Valley, in northern Nye County. Their autonym is ''Tsaidüka'' in their Shoshoni lan ...

."Duckwater Shoshone Tribe."
''Great Basin National Heritage Area.'' (retrieved 17 April 2010) RailroadValleyNV

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{{coord, 38, 41, 14, N, 115, 29, 28, W, region:US-NV_source:GNIS, display=title Valleys of Nevada Valleys of Nye County, Nevada Valleys of White Pine County, Nevada

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