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The Buena Vista Valley is an approximately long valley located in central-east
The valley's north has Nevada State Route 400 traversing due-south from Mill City on I-80 to Unionville at the west foothills of the
Buena Vista Valley (Playa), lat-long.com (coordinates, elev. 4065 ft)
Landforms of Pershing County, Nevada Valleys of Nevada
Pershing County
Pershing County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,650. Its county seat is Lovelock. The county was named after army general John J. Pershing (1860–1948). It was formed from Humboldt County ...
, 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 northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
. Unionville, Nevada lies at its northwest, at the foothills of the Humboldt Range
The Humboldt Range is a largely north-south running range of mountains in northwest Nevada, USA, that extend from the town of Imlay in the north to the junction with the West Humboldt Range in the south. It is bordered continuously by Interst ...
.
The valley contains the approximately long Buena Vista Lake Bed, a crescent shaped lakebed adjacent the southeast perimeter of the Humboldt Range.
Description
The Buena Vista Valley is an approximately north–south trending valley, and crescent shaped narrowing both due-north in its north end, and due-southwest in the south. The narrowing in the north is from the perimeter ranges of the Humboldt Range, west and theEast Range
The East Range is a mountain range in the Great Basin region, located in Pershing County, 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 northwest ...
, east. The valley is at its widest at the north end of the Buena Vista Lake Bed, about 13-mi.
The southwest is a region connected to the northwest of the Carson Sink
Carson Sink is a playa in the northeastern portion of the Carson Desert in present-day Nevada, United States of America, that was formerly the terminus of the Carson River. Today the sink is fed by drainage canals of the Truckee-Carson Irrigat ...
. The narrowing of the valley southwestwards is caused by the Stillwater Range
The Stillwater Range is a mountain range located in western Nevada in the United States. It is a SSW-NNE running ridge, approximately long. It cuts across the center of Churchill County and extends partway into Pershing County.
The Stillwater ...
, its north section which turns to trend due-northeast. The low elevation Buena Vista Hills, , and Chocolate Butte, ,Nevada DeLorme Atlas, p. 36. lie between the Carson Sink and the southwest Buena Vista Valley. This hilly region is located in a sub-valley region, named "Antelope Valley".
Access
The south of Buena Vista Valley can be accessed from the west viaInterstate 80
Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one o ...
, north of Lovelock, via Coal Canyon Road; the road is paved to the valley's south end.
The valley's north has Nevada State Route 400 traversing due-south from Mill City on I-80 to Unionville at the west foothills of the Humboldt Range
The Humboldt Range is a largely north-south running range of mountains in northwest Nevada, USA, that extend from the town of Imlay in the north to the junction with the West Humboldt Range in the south. It is bordered continuously by Interst ...
. Numerous unimproved roads extend through all areas of the valley.
References
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Buena Vista Valley (Playa), lat-long.com (coordinates, elev. 4065 ft)
Landforms of Pershing County, Nevada Valleys of Nevada