Bare Mountain Range (Nevada)

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Bare Mountain Range
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Bare Mountain as seen from the Bullfrog Hills west of Beatty
Highest point
PeakBare Mountain
Elevation 6,273 ft (1,912 m) [1]
Dimensions
Length9 mi (14 km)NW x SE
Width5 mi (8.0 km)
Geography
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Bare Mountain Range
Bare Mountain in Nevada
CountryUnited States
StateNevada
Region Amargosa Desert
County Nye County
Rivers Amargosa River
Municipality Beatty
Range coordinates 36°50′33.813″N116°40′27.21″W / 36.84272583°N 116.6742250°W / 36.84272583; -116.6742250 [1]
Borders on
Topo map USGS  Carrara Canyon

The Bare Mountain Range is a mountain range in southern Nye County, Nevada, in the United States. Bare Mountain and Wildcat Peak are the high points of the range. [1]

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Geography

The Bare Mountain Range is a short range, about 9 miles (14 km) long, trending northwest by southeast. The north end of the range borders Beatty on the Amargosa River. The Bullfrog Hills lie to the northwest of Beatty. Yucca Mountain lies about nine miles to the east across Crater Flat. The range borders the central and northeast Amargosa Desert, which also trends northwest by southeast. U.S. Route 95 runs in the Amargosa Valley along the south edge of the range and turns at Beatty to continue north through Oasis Valley. [2]

The highest peak of the range is Bare Mountain, [3] of the same name, at 6,273 feet (1,912 m). In the southeast of the range, Wildcat Peak rises to 5,052 feet (1,540 m)

Bare Mountain Range was descriptively named for the bare summits. [4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Bare Mountain". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2009-05-04.
  2. ↑ Beatty, Nevada–California, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1986
  3. ↑ Bare Mountain Range, mountainzone.com
  4. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 54.
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