The Seven Troughs Range is a mountain range in western
Pershing County,
Nevada
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.
The name is derived from a series of seven stock watering troughs placed below a set springs.
Neighboring features include:
[''Lovelock, Nevada,'' 30x60 minute quadrangle, USGS, 1984][''Eugene Mts., Nevada,'' 30x60 minute quadrangle, USGS, 1985]
*the
Kamma and
Antelope
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ranges to the north
*the
Majuba Mountains
The Majuba Mountains are a mountain range in Pershing County, Nevada.
The Majuba placer has produced impressive gold specimens. to the northeast
*Sage Valley and
Trinity Range to the southeast with
Lovelock beyond
*Granite Springs Valley to the south
*the
Sahwave Mountains and small
Blue Wing Mountains to the southwest
*Kumiva Valley and the
Selenite Range
The Selenite Range is a mountain range in western Pershing County, Nevada. The range is a north–south trending feature approximately long and wide.
The Fox Range lies to the west across the San Emidio Desert valley and the south end of the B ...
to the west
*
Black Rock Desert
The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe ecoregion) of lava beds and Dry lake, playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt ...
to the northwest
Mining camps
Along the southeast margin of the range above Sage Valley are several ghost towns dating from the early 1900s, which served the gold mining activity in the canyons. Below Seven Troughs Canyon was
Seven Troughs. Running from northeast to southwest are the sites of
Farrell,
Mazuma, and
Vernon.
[''Rocky Canyon, Nevada,'' 7.5 minute quad., USGS, 1982]
References
Mountain ranges of Pershing County, Nevada
Mountain ranges of Nevada
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