The Meadow Valley Wash is a southern
Nevada stream draining the Meadow Watershed that is bordered on three sides by the
Great Basin Divide
The Great Basin Divide in the western United States is the ridgeline that separates the Great Basin from the Pacific Ocean watershed, which completely surrounds it.
The Great Basin is the largest set of contiguous endorheic watersheds of No ...
. The wash's
Lincoln County head point is in the
Wilson Creek Range, and the wash includes two upper confluences (e.g., the
Patterson Wash).
Panaca is along the upper wash, and downstream of
Caliente is the wash's confluence with its east fork. Just before the junction with the
Muddy River, the wash flows from Lincoln County into northeastern
Clark County Clark County may refer to:
*Clark County, Arkansas
*Clark County, Idaho
*Clark County, Illinois
*Clark County, Indiana
*Clark County, Kansas
*Clark County, Kentucky
*Clark County, Missouri
*Clark County, Nevada, containing Las Vegas
*Clark County, ...
. It flows into the Muddy in the
Moapa Valley
Moapa Valley is an unincorporated town in Clark County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 6,924. The valley in which the community lies, also named Moapa Valley, is about long and lies roughly northwest to sou ...
just west of
Glendale adjacent to
Interstate 15
Interstate 15 (I-15) is a major Interstate Highway in the Western United States, running through Southern California and the Intermountain West. I-15 begins near the Mexican border in San Diego County and stretches north to Alberta, Ca ...
approximately northeast of
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...
.
In addition to the Wilson Creek Range, the watershed's drainage divide is in the
Delamar Mountains
The Delamar Mountains are a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada, named after Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar. The range extends for approximately in a NNE–SSW orientation with a width of about . Surrounding ranges include the Burnt Spr ...
(to the west) and the
Meadow Valley Range (east). The northern tip of the watershed is a
triple watershed
A triple divide or triple watershed is a point on Earth's surface where three drainage basins meet. A triple divide results from the intersection of two drainage divides. Triple divides range from prominent mountain peaks to minor side peaks ...
point with two
Great Basin
The Great Basin () is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets to the ocean, in North America. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja Californi ...
subregions: the Central Nevada Desert Basins and the Escalante-Sevier subregion.
History
William Andrews Clark
William Andrews Clark Sr. (January 8, 1839March 2, 1925) was an American entrepreneur, involved with mining, banking, and railroads, as well as a politician.
Biography
Clark was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. He moved with his family to ...
's 1903–1910 railroad that linked
Pioche and
Panaca operated through the wash until washed out by flooding.
References
Rivers of Nevada
Tributaries of the Colorado River in Nevada
Rivers of Lincoln County, Nevada
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