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Lanfair Valley is located in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California near the Nevada state line. It is bounded on the north by the New York Mountains and Castle Mountains, on the east by the Piute Range, and on the south by the Woods Mountains and Vontrigger Hills. Joshua Trees can be found in most of the valley. Elevation is 4,045 feet.
Mojave Heights is an unincorporated community in the Victor Valley of the Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California.
The Mojave Road, also known as Old Government Road, is a historic route and present day dirt road across what is now the Mojave National Preserve in the Mojave Desert in the United States. This rough road stretched 147 miles (237 km) from Beale's Crossing, to Fork of the Road location along the north bank of the Mojave River where the old Mojave Road split off from the route of the Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road.
The Beaver Dam Wash is a seasonal stream near the southwestern Utah-Nevada border in the United States. At its southern end in northern Arizona, near the point where it empties into the Virgin River, the stream flows throughout the year. Part of the wash is in the Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area, managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The wash was so named on account of beaver dams which once were built on its course.
Lake Mojave is an ancient former lake fed by the Mojave River that, through the Holocene, occupied the Silver Lake and Soda Lake basins in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California. Its outlet may have ultimately emptied into the Colorado River north of Blythe.
Lake Manix is a former lake fed by the Mojave River in the Mojave Desert. It lies within San Bernardino County, California. Located close to Barstow, this lake had the shape of a cloverleaf and covered four basins named Coyote, Cady/Manix, Troy and Afton. It covered a surface area of 236 square kilometres (91 sq mi) and reached an altitude of 543 metres (1,781 ft) at highstands, although poorly recognizable shorelines have been found at altitudes of 547–558 metres (1,795–1,831 ft). The lake was fed by increased runoff during the Pleistocene and overflowed into the Lake Mojave basin and from there to Lake Manly in Death Valley, or less likely into the Bristol Lake basin and from there to the Colorado River.
The Lavic Lake volcanic field is a volcanic field with extinct cinder cones in the Mojave Desert, in San Bernardino County, California, United States, at 762 m (2,500 ft) elevation. Its cones lie directly alongside historic Route 66 and modern Interstate 40, between Barstow to the west and Ludlow 10 miles (16 km) to the east.
The Carrizo Creek and Carrizo Wash in California are a stream and an arroyo that the stream flows into, in San Diego County, California and Imperial County, California.
San Pedro Creek, a stream in Val Verde County, Texas, formerly a tributary of Devils River. It is now flows into the east side of Amistad Reservoir at an elevation of 1135 feet. San Pedro Creek has its source at 29°33′34″N100°38′19″W.
Summit Valley is a valley along SR 138 in the San Bernardino Mountains, east of Cajon Pass within San Bernardino County, California.
Lower Narrows of the Mojave River, is a narrow gap the Mojave River passes through at Mojave Heights in San Bernardino County, California. It lies at an elevation of 2,746 feet / 837 meters.
Bryman, is a populated place in the central Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California. It lies along the Mojave River in the northern Victor Valley, at an elevation of 2,526 feet . It is on the historic U.S. Route 66, 5 miles north of Oro Grande, and south of Helendale.
Salt Creek or Rio Salitroso is a tributary stream or wash of the Amargosa River, in San Bernardino County, California. It was named Rio Salitroso, on January 16, 1830, by Antonio Armijo, whose expedition subsequently followed it up towards the Mojave River, as they established the first route of the Old Spanish Trail.
Sawpit Canyon is a steep valley or canyon in the San Bernardino Mountains of San Bernardino County, California. Its mouth is at an elevation of 3,386 feet. Its source is located at 34°14′43″N117°20′56″W and lies at an elevation of 5,100 feet, just east of Monument Peak. Its creek was a tributary of the West Fork Mojave River, its original mouth now under Silverwood Lake.
West Fork Mojave River is a tributary stream of the Mojave River in the San Bernardino Mountains of San Bernardino County, California. Its mouth lies at an elevation of 2,986 feet / 910 meters at its confluence with Deep Creek, together the source of the Mojave River. The source of the West Fork is at 34°15′52″N117°24′01″W at an elevation of 4,960 feet, on the north side of a saddle between summits on a ridge running west northwest of Sugarpine Mountain. Sawpit Canyon Creek and East Fork of West Fork Mojave River are its tributaries, both of which now feed into Silverwood Lake that was created when the West Fork was obstructed by the Cedar Springs Dam in 1971.
East Fork of West Fork Mojave River is a tributary stream of the West Fork Mojave River, itself a tributary of the Mojave River, in the San Bernardino Mountains of San Bernardino County, California. Its mouth originally was at its confluence with the West Fork Mojave River which is now submerged under Lake Silverwood. It now lies at an elevation of 3,376 feet/1,029 meters at its confluence with that lake. The source of the East Fork is at 34°15′11″N117°14′24″W at an elevation of 5,500 feet in Twin Peaks, California.
Palm Canyon Wash is an arroyo and tributary ephemeral stream or wash running east from the Jacumba Mountains in San Diego County, California to its confluence with Coyote Wash, east northeast of Ocotillo in the Yuha Desert of Imperial County, California at an elevation of 239 feet / 73 meters. Its source is on the east slope of the Jacumba Mountains at 32°42′28″N116°10′10″W, at an elevation of 4,000 feet.
Palm Canyon Wash is an arroyo and tributary ephemeral stream or wash of the Whitewater River, in Riverside County, California.
Bull Canyon is a canyon at the top of Palm Canyon Wash, which is a tributary to the Whitewater River, in Riverside County, California. Bull Canyon and the creek of Palm Canyon Wash heads at 33°36′47″N116°33′23″W, at an elevation of 6,165 feet in the southern western slope of a ridge in the San Jacinto Mountains. The waters of the creek of Palm Canyon Wash are augmented by Bull Canyon Spring at 33°35′22″N116°33′24″W, at an elevation of 5,331 feet / 1,625 meters. The mouth of Bull Canyon is at an elevation of 4,508 feet / 1,374 meters at the head of Palm Canyon. The mouth of an unnamed creek flows north down from Vandeventer Flat into the head of Palm Canyon at its confluence with Palm Canyon Wash at 33°34′08″N116°31′43″W at an elevation of 4,460 feet.
Pipkin is a volcano in California, with activity during the Quaternary. The surface of erupted lava flows is weathered, and argon-argon dating and potassium-argon dating has yielded ages of 770,000 ± 40,000 and c. 600,000 years before present, respectively.
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Coordinates: 34°58′29″N116°32′27″W / 34.97472°N 116.54083°W
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