A List of landforms of the Nellis & Wildlife 5 Ranges region.
The following ranges are:
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Desert National Wildlife Range
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National Wildhorse Management Area
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Air Force Test Flight Center – (
Area 51 –
Groom Lake, Nevada
Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base, the facility is officially called Homey Airport ...
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Nellis Air Force Range
The Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) is one of two military training areas at the Nellis Air Force Base Complex in Nevada and used by the United States Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base. The NTTR land area includes a "sim ...
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Nevada Test Site
The five
contiguous regions are located north and northwest of
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas ...
. The
Las Vegas Range
The Las Vegas Range is an arid mountain range in Clark County, Nevada. The range is located in the southeast of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
Geography
The Las Vegas Range is a north–south range, with two main north–south ridgelines. T ...
of the Desert National Wildlife Range borders the north perimeter of
North Las Vegas
North Las Vegas is a suburban city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, in the Las Vegas Valley. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 216,961, with an estimated population of 251,974 in 2019. The city was incorporated on May 1, 19 ...
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List of landforms
Desert National Wildlife Range
Mountain Ranges
*Buried Hills
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Desert Range
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East Desert Range
The East Desert Range is a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada.
Description
The range is northwest–southeast trending around the Three Lakes Valley where Dog Bone Lake is the large landform in the valley flatlands. The range sits most ...
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Las Vegas Range
The Las Vegas Range is an arid mountain range in Clark County, Nevada. The range is located in the southeast of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
Geography
The Las Vegas Range is a north–south range, with two main north–south ridgelines. T ...
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Ranger Mountains
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Sheep Range
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Spotted Range
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Pintwater Range
The Pintwater Range is a mountain range in Churchill and Lincoln counties, in the U.S. state of 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 nort ...
Other landforms
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Corn Creek Dunes
Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...
*Corn Creek Springs
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Desert Lake (Nevada) Desert Lake may refer to:
* Dry lake
* Desert Lake, California
* Desert Lake, Utah
Desert Lake is a ghost town in Castle Valley in northern Emery County, Utah, United States. It was inhabited from 1885 to about 1910.
History
In 1885, several ...
*Dog Bone Lake
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Indian Springs Valley
Indian or Indians may refer to:
Peoples South Asia
* Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor
** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country
* South Asia ...
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Three Lakes Valley (Nevada)
Three Lakes Valley is a long,Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, c. 2010, p. 66-67. partially endorheic valley in southwest Lincoln County and northwest Clark County, Nevada. The southwest of the valley has a narrowing with washes that flow s ...
Associated:
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Indian Springs, Nevada
Indian Springs is an unincorporated town and a census-designated place located on U.S. Route 95 next to Creech Air Force Base in northwestern Clark County and southern Nevada.
The population was 991 at the 2010 census.
History
The community wa ...
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Mercury, Nevada
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U.S. Route 93 in Nevada
In the U.S. state of Nevada, U.S. Route 93 (US 93) is a major United States Numbered Highway traversing the eastern edge of the state. The highway connects the Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas area to the Great Basin National Park, and provides f ...
Groom Lake, Nevada
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Emigrant Valley Emigrant Valley is a valley in the U.S. state of Nevada.
Emigrant Valley was named for a party of emigrants who traveled through it. The valley is home to the Groom Lake Facility of the Nevada Test Range, popularly known as Area 51
Area 51 ...
*Groom Lake
Associated:
*Papoose Lake
National Wildhorse Management Area
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Belted Range
The Belted Range is a mountain range in Nye County, Nevada. The range is approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and midway between the Basin and Range National Monument to the northeast and the Death Valley Wilderness
Death is the i ...
*Gold Reed (site)
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Kawich Valley
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Kawich Range
The Kawich Range is a mountain range in Nye County in southern Nevada in the United States, just south of the Hot Creek Range. The southern part of the range lies on the Nellis Air Force Range. The mountains cover an area of about and contain Kaw ...
Associated:
*Cedar Pipeline Ranch
*Railroad Valley
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U.S. Route 93 in Nevada
In the U.S. state of Nevada, U.S. Route 93 (US 93) is a major United States Numbered Highway traversing the eastern edge of the state. The highway connects the Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas area to the Great Basin National Park, and provides f ...
Nellis Air Force Range
The Nellis Air Force Range contains all of the Desert National Wildlife Range, except in the entire east, the Sheep and Las Vegas Ranges, and Desert Lake.
Mountain ranges
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Belted Range
The Belted Range is a mountain range in Nye County, Nevada. The range is approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and midway between the Basin and Range National Monument to the northeast and the Death Valley Wilderness
Death is the i ...
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Cactus Range
The Cactus Range is a small mountain range in Nye County, Nevada. The range lies southwest of Cactus Flat and north of Pahute Mesa. Goldfield lies to the west in Esmeralda County. The range lies within the restricted area of the Tonopah Test Ran ...
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Groom Range
Landforms
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Amargosa River
The Amargosa River is an intermittent waterway, 185 miles (298 km) long, in southern Nevada and eastern California in the United States. It drains a high desert region, the Amargosa Valley in the Amargosa Desert northwest of Las Vegas, int ...
-(headwaters)
*Antelope Lake, west Nye County
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Cactus Flat
Cactus Flat is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins in the Cactus-Sacrobatus Watershed, for which it is an eponym. The flat is the location of the Tonopah Test Range Airport and Tonopah Test Range, a component of the Nevada Test and Training ...
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Emigrant Valley Emigrant Valley is a valley in the U.S. state of Nevada.
Emigrant Valley was named for a party of emigrants who traveled through it. The valley is home to the Groom Lake Facility of the Nevada Test Range, popularly known as Area 51
Area 51 ...
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Gold Flat
*Mellan (site)
*Mud Lake, in Nye County
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Pahute Mesa
Pahute Mesa or Paiute Mesa is one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). It occupies in the northwest corner of the NNSS in Nevada. The eastern section is known as Area 19 and the western section as A ...
*Stonewall Mountain, western Nye County
Associated:
*Chispa Hills
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Goldfield, Nevada
*Ralston (site)
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Scotty's Junction, Nevada
Scotty's Junction is an unincorporated community in the Sarcobatus Flat of Nye County, Nevada where State Route 267 meets with U.S. Route 95 at an elevation of .
It was named after Walter E. Scott (a.k.a. Death Valley Scotty, of nearby Scotty' ...
*Stonewall Pass
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U.S. Route 93 in Nevada
In the U.S. state of Nevada, U.S. Route 93 (US 93) is a major United States Numbered Highway traversing the eastern edge of the state. The highway connects the Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas area to the Great Basin National Park, and provides f ...
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U.S. Route 95 in Nevada
U.S. Route 95 (US 95) is a major U.S. highway traversing the U.S. state of Nevada from north to south directly through Las Vegas and providing connections to both Carson City (via US 50) and Reno (via Interstate 80). US 95 is cosigned with Inter ...
Nevada Test Site
Mountain ranges
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Eleana Range
*Skull Mountain
Landforms
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Amargosa Desert
The Amargosa Desert is located in Nye County in western Nevada, United States, along the California–Nevada border, comprising the northeastern portion of the geographic Amargosa Valley, north of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
The ...
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Amargosa Valley, Nevada
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Frenchman Lake
*South Silent Canyon
Associated:
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Mercury, Nevada
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Specter Range
The Specter Range is a small mountain range in southeastern Nye County, Nevada.
The southern margin of the range is bounded by the Amargosa Desert with the Funeral Mountains and Death Valley beyond. Yucca Mountain, Jackass Flat and Skull Mountain ...
Mountain ranges inside the 5 regions
*Buried Hills
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Belted Range
The Belted Range is a mountain range in Nye County, Nevada. The range is approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and midway between the Basin and Range National Monument to the northeast and the Death Valley Wilderness
Death is the i ...
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Cactus Range
The Cactus Range is a small mountain range in Nye County, Nevada. The range lies southwest of Cactus Flat and north of Pahute Mesa. Goldfield lies to the west in Esmeralda County. The range lies within the restricted area of the Tonopah Test Ran ...
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Desert Range
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East Desert Range
The East Desert Range is a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada.
Description
The range is northwest–southeast trending around the Three Lakes Valley where Dog Bone Lake is the large landform in the valley flatlands. The range sits most ...
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Eleana Range
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Groom Range
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Kawich Range
The Kawich Range is a mountain range in Nye County in southern Nevada in the United States, just south of the Hot Creek Range. The southern part of the range lies on the Nellis Air Force Range. The mountains cover an area of about and contain Kaw ...
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Las Vegas Range
The Las Vegas Range is an arid mountain range in Clark County, Nevada. The range is located in the southeast of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.
Geography
The Las Vegas Range is a north–south range, with two main north–south ridgelines. T ...
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Ranger Mountains
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Sheep Range
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Spotted Range
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Pintwater Range
The Pintwater Range is a mountain range in Churchill and Lincoln counties, in the U.S. state of 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 nort ...
See also
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Amargosa Desert
The Amargosa Desert is located in Nye County in western Nevada, United States, along the California–Nevada border, comprising the northeastern portion of the geographic Amargosa Valley, north of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
The ...
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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." ...
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Nellis - Wildlife five contiguous range region
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Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex
The Desert National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, located north of Las Vegas, Nevada, in northwestern Clark and southwestern Lincoln counties, with much of its land area lying w ...
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Landforms of the Nellis
Nellis Nellis may refer to:
People
* Alice Nellis (born 1971), Czech filmmaker
* Duane Nellis (born 1954), American educator and Ohio University president
* William Harrell Nellis (1916-1944), World War II fighter pilot, after whom the Air Force base is n ...
Geography of Clark County, Nevada
Geography of Lincoln County, Nevada
Geography of Nye County, Nevada