Sarcobatus Flat is a closed valley in western
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 ...
between
Goldfield and
Beatty. The
Bullfrog Hills form the southern boundary and the
Grapevine Mountains
The Grapevine Mountains is a mountain range located along the border of Inyo County, California and Nye County, Nevada in the United States. The mountain range is about long and lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction along the Nevada-Calif ...
along with Bonnie Claire Flat form the western boundary.
Pahute Mesa bounds the area to the east and north. To the north the flat is contiguous with Lida Valley and Stonewall Flat.
[''Beatty, Nevada–California'', 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1986][''Pahute Mesa, Nevada'', 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1979][''Last Chance Range, California–Nevada'', 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1985][''Salina Valley, California–Nevada'', 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1985]
US Route 95 traverses the northeast side of the flat between Springdale at the north end of the Bullfrog Hills and
Scotty's Junction and on to Stonewall Pass between
Slate Ridge on the west and
Stonewall Mountain on the east. At Scotty's Junction
Nevada State Route 267 heads southeast to
Bonnie Claire and on to the
Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park is a national park of the United States that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern sect ...
in
California
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. The Nevada portion of the park extends into the southern portion of the Flat along the northern flanks of the Bullfrog Hills.
Nellis Air Force Base
Nellis Air Force Base ("Nellis" colloquialism, colloq.) is a United States Air Force military installation, installation in southern Nevada. Nellis hosts Aerial warfare, air combat exercises such as Exercise Red Flag and close air support exerc ...
occupies a portion along the northeast margin of the Flat.
[
The lowest area within the flat is the salt flat just east of Bonnie Claire at an elevation of 3943 feet. Bonnie Peak at the north end of a spur of the Grapevine Mountains and less than one mile west-southwest of the low point has an elevation of 4969 feet.][''Bonnie Claire, Nevada,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968] Further south Grapevine Peak rises to an elevation of 8737 feet along the crest of the Grapevines adjacent to the California border. Grapevine Peak lies about six miles west of the Sarcobatus floor in the southern portion.[
The Flat is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins]Tonopah Basin
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range in the western United States. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife ...
and is separated from the 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 ...
of the Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert (; ; ) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous Mohave people, it is located pr ...
to the south.
References
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Valleys of Nevada
Valleys of Nye County, Nevada
Central Basin and Range ecoregion