The Seven Troughs Range is a mountain range in western
Pershing County,
Nevada
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.
The name is derived from a series of seven stock watering troughs placed below a set springs.
Neighboring features include:
[''Lovelock, Nevada,'' 30x60 minute quadrangle, USGS, 1984][''Eugene Mts., Nevada,'' 30x60 minute quadrangle, USGS, 1985]
*the
Kama
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and
Antelope ranges to the north,
*the
Majuba Mountains to the northeast,
*Sage Valley and
Trinity Range to the southeast with
Lovelock beyond;
*Granite Springs Valley to the south,
*the
Sahwave Mountains and small
Blue Wing Mountains
The Blue Wing Mountains are a mountain range in west central Pershing County, Nevada.
The range is a small northeast trending range typical of the Basin and Range Province. Adjacent to the northwest side of the range is a desert playa of the broad ...
to the southwest;
*Kumiva Valley and the
Selenite Range to the west and
*
Black Rock Desert
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to the northwest.
Mining camps
Along the southeast margin of the range above Sage Valley are several ghost towns dating from the early 1900s, which served the gold mining activity in the canyons. Below Seven Troughs Canyon was
Seven Troughs. Running from northeast to southwest are the sites of
Farrell
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* Farrell (surname)
* Farrell Lines, shipping company (acquired by Maersk)
* Farrell, Nevada, an American city
* Farrell, Pennsylvania, an American city
* Farr ...
,
Mazuma, and
Vernon.
[''Rocky Canyon, Nevada,'' 7.5 minute quad., USGS, 1982]
References
Mountain ranges of Pershing County, Nevada
Mountain ranges of Nevada
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