A List of landforms of the Nellis & Wildlife 5 Ranges region.
The following ranges are:
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Desert National Wildlife Range
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National Wildhorse Management Area
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Air Force Test Flight Center – (
Area 51
Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range in southern Nevada, north-northwest of Las Vegas.
A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force B ...
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Groom Lake, Nevada
Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range in southern Nevada, north-northwest of Las Vegas.
A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Ba ...
)
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Nellis Air Force Range
The Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) is one of two military training areas at the Nellis Air Force Base Complex in Nevada and used by the United States Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base. The NTTR land area includes a "simu ...
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Nevada Test Site
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about northwest of ...
The five
contiguous
Contiguity or contiguous may refer to:
*Contiguous data storage, in computer science
*Contiguity (probability theory)
*Contiguity (psychology)
*Contiguous distribution of species, in biogeography
*Geographic contiguity
Geographic contiguity is t ...
regions are located north and northwest of
Las Vegas, Nevada
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 ...
. The
Las Vegas Range of the Desert National Wildlife Range borders the north perimeter of
North Las Vegas
North Las Vegas is a suburban city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, in the Las Vegas Valley. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 262,527, with an estimated population of 280,543 in 2022. The city was incorporated on May 1, 1946 ...
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List of landforms
Desert National Wildlife Range
Mountain Ranges
*Buried Hills
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Desert Range
The Desert Range is a mountain range in Clark County, Nevada.
Desert Range was descriptively named on account of its desert
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biome ...
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East Desert Range
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Las Vegas Range
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Ranger Mountains
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Sheep Range
The Sheep Range is located north of Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States. It is found in both Clark and Lincoln Counties in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The mountains reach a peak at Hayford Peak, above sea level between the Las Veg ...
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Spotted Range
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Pintwater Range
Other landforms
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Corn Creek Dunes
*Corn Creek Springs
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Desert Lake (Nevada)
*Dog Bone Lake
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Indian Springs Valley
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Three Lakes Valley (Nevada)
Three Lakes Valley is a long,Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, c. 2010, p. 66-67. partially endorheic valley in southwest Lincoln County and northwest Clark County, Nevada. The southwest of the valley has a narrowing with washes that flow s ...
Associated:
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Indian Springs, Nevada
Indian Springs is an unincorporated town and a census-designated place located on U.S. Route 95 next to Creech Air Force Base in northwestern Clark County and southern Nevada.
The population was 912 at the 2020 census.
History
The communit ...
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Mercury, Nevada
Mercury is a closed village in Nye County, Nevada, United States, north of U.S. Route 95 at a point northwest of Las Vegas. It is situated within the Nevada Test Site, Nevada National Security Site and was constructed by the United States A ...
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U.S. Route 93 in Nevada
In the U.S. state of Nevada, U.S. Route 93 (US 93) is a major United States Numbered Highway traversing the eastern edge of the state. The highway connects the Las Vegas area to the Great Basin National Park, and provides further connections t ...
Groom Lake, Nevada
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Emigrant Valley
*Groom Lake
Associated:
*Papoose Lake
National Wildhorse Management Area
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Belted Range
The Belted Range is a mountain range in Nye County, Nevada, United States. The range is approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and midway between the Basin and Range National Monument
Basin and Range National Monument is a national mon ...
*Gold Reed (site)
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Kawich Valley
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Kawich Range
The Kawich Range is a mountain range in Nye County in southern Nevada in the United States, just south of the Hot Creek Range. The southern part of the range lies on the Nellis Air Force Range. The mountains cover an area of about and contain Ka ...
Associated:
*Cedar Pipeline Ranch
*Railroad Valley
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U.S. Route 93 in Nevada
In the U.S. state of Nevada, U.S. Route 93 (US 93) is a major United States Numbered Highway traversing the eastern edge of the state. The highway connects the Las Vegas area to the Great Basin National Park, and provides further connections t ...
Nellis Air Force Range
The Nellis Air Force Range contains all of the Desert National Wildlife Range, except in the entire east, the Sheep and Las Vegas Ranges, and Desert Lake.
Mountain ranges
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Belted Range
The Belted Range is a mountain range in Nye County, Nevada, United States. The range is approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and midway between the Basin and Range National Monument
Basin and Range National Monument is a national mon ...
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Cactus Range
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Groom Range
The Groom Range is a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, ...
Landforms
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Amargosa River
The Amargosa River is an waterway, 185 miles (298 km) long, in southern Nevada and eastern California in the United States. The Amargosa River is one out of two rivers located in the California portion of the Mojave Desert with perennial f ...
-(headwaters)
*Antelope Lake, west Nye County
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Cactus Flat
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Emigrant Valley
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Gold Flat
*Mellan (site)
*Mud Lake, in Nye County
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Pahute Mesa
Pahute Mesa or Paiute Mesa is one of four major nuclear test regions within the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). It occupies in the northwest corner of the NNSS in Nevada. The eastern section is known as Area 19 and the western section as ...
*Stonewall Mountain, western Nye County
Associated:
*Chispa Hills
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Goldfield, Nevada
Goldfield is an unincorporated town and census-designated place and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada.
It is the locus of the Goldfield CDP which had a resident population of 268 at the 2010 census, down from 440 in 2000. Gold ...
*Ralston (site)
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Scotty's Junction, Nevada
*Stonewall Pass
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U.S. Route 93 in Nevada
In the U.S. state of Nevada, U.S. Route 93 (US 93) is a major United States Numbered Highway traversing the eastern edge of the state. The highway connects the Las Vegas area to the Great Basin National Park, and provides further connections t ...
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U.S. Route 95 in Nevada
U.S. Route 95 (US 95) is a major U.S. highway traversing the U.S. state of Nevada from north to south directly through Las Vegas and providing connections to both Carson City (via US 50) and Reno (via Interstate 80). US 95 is cosigned with Inte ...
Nevada Test Site
Mountain ranges
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Eleana Range
*Skull Mountain
Landforms
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Amargosa Desert
The Amargosa Desert is located in Nye County in western Nevada, United States, along the California–Nevada border, comprising the northeastern portion of the geographic Amargosa Valley, north of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
T ...
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Amargosa Valley, Nevada
Amargosa Valley (formerly Lathrop Wells) is an unincorporated town located on U.S. Route 95 in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.
Description
The community is named after the Amargosa River which flows through the valley from its orig ...
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Frenchman Lake
*South Silent Canyon
Associated:
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Mercury, Nevada
Mercury is a closed village in Nye County, Nevada, United States, north of U.S. Route 95 at a point northwest of Las Vegas. It is situated within the Nevada Test Site, Nevada National Security Site and was constructed by the United States A ...
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Specter Range
Mountain ranges inside the 5 regions
*Buried Hills
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Belted Range
The Belted Range is a mountain range in Nye County, Nevada, United States. The range is approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and midway between the Basin and Range National Monument
Basin and Range National Monument is a national mon ...
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Cactus Range
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Desert Range
The Desert Range is a mountain range in Clark County, Nevada.
Desert Range was descriptively named on account of its desert
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biome ...
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East Desert Range
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Eleana Range
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Groom Range
The Groom Range is a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, ...
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Kawich Range
The Kawich Range is a mountain range in Nye County in southern Nevada in the United States, just south of the Hot Creek Range. The southern part of the range lies on the Nellis Air Force Range. The mountains cover an area of about and contain Ka ...
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Las Vegas Range
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Ranger Mountains
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Sheep Range
The Sheep Range is located north of Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States. It is found in both Clark and Lincoln Counties in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The mountains reach a peak at Hayford Peak, above sea level between the Las Veg ...
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Spotted Range
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Pintwater Range
See also
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Amargosa Desert
The Amargosa Desert is located in Nye County in western Nevada, United States, along the California–Nevada border, comprising the northeastern portion of the geographic Amargosa Valley, north of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
T ...
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Amargosa Valley
The Amargosa Valley is the valley through which the Amargosa River flows south, in Nye County, southwestern Nevada and Inyo County in the state of California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies ...
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Nellis - Wildlife five contiguous range region
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Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex
The Desert National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, located north of Las Vegas, Nevada, in northwestern Clark and southwestern Lincoln counties, with much of its land area ...
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Landforms of the Nellis
Nellis
Geography of Clark County, Nevada
Geography of Lincoln County, Nevada
Geography of Nye County, Nevada