Sarcobatus Flat is a closed valley in western

Nye County, Nevada 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 ...

between Goldfield and Beatty. The

Bullfrog Hills The Bullfrog Hills are a small mountain range of the Mojave Desert in southern Nye County, southwestern Nevada. Bullfrog Hills was so named from a fancied resemblance of its ore to the color of a bullfrog. Geography To the range's east are Beat ...

form the southern boundary and the

Grapevine Mountains The Grapevine Mountains are a mountain range located along the border of Inyo County, California and Nye County, Nevada in the United States. The mountain range is about long and lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction along the Nevada-Califor ...

along with Bonnie Claire Flat form the western boundary.

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 ...

bounds the area to the east and north. To the north the flat is contiguous with Lida Valley and Stonewall Flat.''Beatty, Nevada–California'', 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1986''Pahute Mesa, Nevada'', 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1979''Last Chance Range, California–Nevada'', 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1985''Salina Valley, California–Nevada'', 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1985 US Route 95 traverses the northeast side of the flat between Springdale at the north end of the Bullfrog Hills and Scotty's Junction and on to Stonewall Pass between Slate Ridge on the west and Stonewall Mountain on the east. At Scotty's Junction Nevada State Route 267 heads southeast to Bonnie Claire and on to the

Death Valley National Park Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka ...

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

. The Nevada portion of the park extends into the southern portion of the Flat along the northern flanks of the Bullfrog Hills.

Nellis Air Force Base Nellis Air Force Base ("Nellis" colloq.) is a United States Air Force installation in southern Nevada. Nellis hosts air combat exercises such as Exercise Red Flag and close air support exercises such as Green Flag-West flown in " Military ...

occupies a portion along the northeast margin of the Flat. The lowest area within the flat is the salt flat just east of Bonnie Claire at an elevation of 3943 feet. Bonnie Peak at the north end of a spur of the Grapevine Mountains and less than one mile west-southwest of the low point has an elevation of 4969 feet.''Bonnie Claire, Nevada,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968 Further south Grapevine Peak rises to an elevation of 8737 feet along the crest of the Grapevines adjacent to the California border. Grapevine Peak lies about six miles west of the Sarcobatus floor in the southern portion. The Flat is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins that, along with Cactus Flat to the northeast constitutes the larger Cactus-

Sarcobatus ''Sarcobatus'' is a North American genus of two species of flowering plants, formerly considered to be a single species. Common names for ''S. vermiculatus'' include greasewood, seepwood, and saltbush. Traditionally, ''Sarcobatus'' has been ...

Watershed. The flat is considered part of 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 ...

and is separated from the

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." ...

of the

Mojave Desert The Mojave Desert ( ; mov, Hayikwiir Mat'aar; es, Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Southwestern United States. It is named for the indigenous Mojave people. It is located primarily in ...

to the south.

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{{reflist Valleys of Nevada Valleys of Nye County, Nevada Central Basin and Range ecoregion