The Reveille Range is the
Nye County, Nevada
Nye County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 51,591. Its county seat is Tonopah, Nevada, Tonopah. At , Nye is Nevada's largest county by area ...
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 and in width and is oriented approximately north south. The
Railroad Valley lies to the east and the
Reveille Valley to the west. Immediately to the north northeast lies the
Pancake Range and the
Lunar Crater volcanic field with
Lunar Crater National Natural Landmark. The community of
Warm Springs and
U.S. Route 6 are seven miles west of the north end of the range.
Nevada State Route 375, the ''Extraterrestrial Highway'', runs east from Warm Springs through the divide between the Reveilles and the Pancake Range and then south into Railroad Valley past the east side of the range. West of the Reveille Valley lies the
Kawich Range and to the east across Railroad Valley lies the
Quinn Canyon Range. The restricted
Nellis Air Force Range lies to the south.
[Warm Springs, Nevada, 30x60 minute Topographic Map, USGS, 1987]
Names
* Goblin Knobs - Five miles north of Reveille were so named because local tuff weathers into hoodoos and weird knobs.
* Reveille - Mr Fairchild, a member of a prospecting party who was an editor of the ''Reese River Reveille'' named the mining district in 1866 to commemorate the newspaper.
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References
Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Nye County, Nevada
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Volcanoes of Nevada
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