The Pancake Range is located in east-central

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in the

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. The range extends as an irregular sinuous line for approximately with a roughly north-south trend (N 10 E) in Nye and

White Pine ''Pinus'', the pines, is a genus of approximately 111 extant tree and shrub species. The genus is currently split into two subgenera: subgenus ''Pinus'' (hard pines), and subgenus ''Strobus'' (soft pines). Each of the subgenera have been furthe ...

counties.''Mt. Hamilton, Nevada'' 30x60 Quadrangle, USGS, 1979;
''Duckwater, Nevada'' 30x60 Quadrangle, USGS, 1980;
''Quinn Canyon Range, Nevada'' 30x60 Quadrangle, USGS, 1988;
''Warm Springs, Nevada'' 30x60 Quadrangle, USGS, 1987 The range reaches an elevation of at Portuguese Mountain. Neighboring ranges include the

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and Quinn Canyon ranges across

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on the east-southeast; and Park and Hot Creek ranges across Big Sandy Springs and Hot Creek valleys on the west-northwest. The south end of Newark Valley lies at the extreme north end of the range. The Lunar Crater Volcanic Field lies at the southwestern end of the chain with the

Reveille Range The Reveille Range is the Nye County, Nevada mountain range that is the location of the Reveille Range volcanic field. The highest point is Reveille Peak in the southern part of the range with an elevation of . The range is approximately long an ...

to the south.

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lies to the east and

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lies to the west of the north end of the Pancake Range.

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between these two cities crosses the very north end of the range at Pancake Summit (elevation ). Further south the community of Duckwater and the

Duckwater Indian Reservation The Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the Duckwater Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Western Shoshone, based in central Nevada in the high desert Railroad Valley, in northern Nye County. Their autonym is ''Tsaidüka'' in their Shoshoni lan ...

lies in the Duckwater Valley portion of Railroad Valley to the east of the range. The unpaved former Nevada route 20/379 crosses the range between Duckwater and Eureka at Red Rock Summit in the southwest corner of White Pine County.

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crosses the Pancake Range at Sandy Summit north of Lunar Crater between Currant to the east and Warm Springs to the southwest of the range. Nevada route 375, the

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, traverses the valley east from Warm Springs between the Pancake and Reveille ranges. The Bureau of Land Management manages 99.9% of the 864 square mile (2,238 km²) mountain area. Trees found in the range include:

Utah Juniper ''Juniperus osteosperma'' (Utah juniper; syn. ''J. utahensis'') is a shrub or small tree native to the southwestern United States. Description The plant reaches , rarely to 9 m, tall. The shoots are fairly thick compared to most junipers, i ...

(''Juniperus osteosperma''),

Single-leaf Pinyon ''Pinus monophylla'', the single-leaf pinyon, (alternatively spelled piñon) is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to North America. The range is in southernmost Idaho, western Utah, Arizona, southwest New Mexico, Nevada, eastern and south ...

(''Pinus monophylla''), and

Rocky Mountain Juniper ''Juniperus scopulorum'', the Rocky Mountain juniper, is a species of juniper native to western North America, from southwest Canada to the Great Plains of the United States. Description ''Juniperus scopulorum'' is a small evergreen conifer rea ...

(''Juniperus scopulorum''). Mammals found in the Pancake Range include:

pronghorn The pronghorn (, ) (''Antilocapra americana'') is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is known colloquially in North America as the American ant ...

, long-tailed pocket mouse, chisel-toothed kangaroo rat, and the little pocket mouse. Pancake Range was so named on account of its relatively flat outline.

References

Biological Resources Research Center
* ''Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer'', DeLorme, 2001, pgs. 47 & 55 Mountain ranges of Nevada Mountain ranges of the Great Basin Mountain ranges of Nye County, Nevada {{NyeCountyNV-geo-stub