The Antelope Valley is a high valley in the eastern

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stretching from

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Geography

Antelope Valley is approximately long and wide.Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, c. 2010, p. 50-51. The

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reports its elevation at . It stretches from to . The mountains surrounding the valley floor rise to over . The topography of the valley floor is gently rolling and conducive to the agricultural and pastoral uses to which it is put. The valley sides are made up of steep slopes. The primary land use is irrigation-based agriculture and grazing.

Hydrography

Antelope Valley is watered by the

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and Mill Creak, and contains

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(a reservoir).

Settlement

On the California side of the border, where the vast majority () of the valley lies, the Antelope Valley is served by the

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(formed 1947)Report of the Mono County Planning Department regarding the Antelope Valley Fire Protection District
and the

Antelope Valley Water District The term antelope refers to numerous extant or recently extinct species of the ruminant artiodactyl family Bovidae that are indigenous to most of Africa, India, the Middle East, Central Asia, and a small area of Eastern Europe. Antelopes do not ...

(formed 1961),Report of the Mono County Planning Department regarding the Antelope Valley Water District
and includes the communities of Coleville,

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, and

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. The 2000 census reported that the population of the portion of Antelope Valley in California was 1,525. In 2003, the California Department of Finance estimated that the population was 1,557.

Transportation

U.S. Route 395 traverses the valley and is its primary thoroughfare.

References

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Geography

Hydrography

Settlement

Transportation

See also

References