The New York Mountains are a small mountain range found in northeastern San Bernardino County in California, USA. The range's northeastern area lies in southeastern Nevada. The range lies just south of the small community of Ivanpah, and north of the Lanfair Valley. The mountains are part of the mountain ranges, cones, mountains, and landforms in the Mojave National Preserve. The mountains reach an elevation of 7,533 feet (2,296 m), and run in a mostly southwest-northeasterly direction between the Providence Mountains and the McCullough Range approximately five miles into Nevada and border the northwest corner of the Piute Valley of Nevada-California.
The Tule Desert is located in southeastern Nevada in Lincoln County, near the Utah state line. The desert lies northeast of the Mormon Mountains, south of the Clover Mountains and west of the Tule Springs Hills.
Seitz Lake is a glacial tarn in the Ruby Mountains, in Elko County in the northeastern part of the state of Nevada. It is located near the head of Seitz Canyon at approximately 40°38.2′N115°27.4′W, and at an elevation of 8,915 feet. It has an area of approximately 17 acres, and a depth of up to 20 feet.
Lamoille Lake is a glacial tarn in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is within the Ruby Mountains Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The lake is located at the head of Lamoille Canyon, at approximately 40°34.6′N115°23.7′W, and at an elevation of 9,747 feet. It has an area of approximately 13.6 acres. It is a popular destination for day hikers and fishing, as the Ruby Crest National Recreation Trail passes its eastern shore before beginning a steep climb to Liberty Pass.
Griswold Lake is a glacial tarn in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is within the Ruby Mountains Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The lake is located at the head of Hennen Canyon, at approximately 40°38.1′N115°29.2′W, and at an elevation of 9,222 feet. It has an area of approximately 17 acres, and a depth of up to 20 feet.
Temescal Creek is an approximately 29-mile-long (47 km) watercourse in Riverside County, in the U.S. state of California. Flowing primarily in a northwestern direction, it connects Lake Elsinore with the Santa Ana River. It drains the eastern slopes of the Santa Ana Mountains on its left and on its right the western slopes of the Temescal Mountains along its length. With a drainage basin of about 1,000 square miles (2,600 km2), it is the largest tributary of the Santa Ana River, hydrologically connecting the 720-square-mile (1,900 km2) San Jacinto River and Lake Elsinore watersheds to the rest of the Santa Ana watershed. However, flowing through an arid rain shadow zone of the Santa Ana Mountains, and with diversion of ground water for human use, the creek today is ephemeral for most of its length, except for runoff from housing developments and agricultural return flows.
Shadow Valley is a north to northwest flowing drainage within the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California. A section of Interstate 15 passes through the valley between Mountain Pass and Halloran Springs. The valley drains to the north from the west flank of the Mescal Range, the Ivanpah Mountains and, Cima Dome within the Mojave National Preserve. North of I-15 the valley lies between Clark Mountains to the east and Shadow Mountain to the west. To the north of Shadow Mountain, Kingman Wash becomes the main drainage and turns to the west south of the Kingston Range. The Mesquite Mountains and the Mesquite Valley are to the northeast.
The Temescal Mountains, also known as the Sierra Temescal, are one of the northernmost mountain ranges of the Peninsular Ranges in western Riverside County, in Southern California in the United States. They extend for approximately 25 mi (40 km) southeast of the Santa Ana River east of the Elsinore Fault Zone to the Temecula Basin and form the western edge of the Perris Block.
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.
Hualapai Valley is a valley in Mohave County, Arizona.
Wilson Pass is a gap in Clark County, Nevada. It lies at an elevation of 5033 feet in the Spring Mountains between Goodsprings Valley and Mesquite Valley.
Goodsprings Valley is a basin in Clark County of southern Nevada. It lies at an elevation of 3,566 ft (1,087 m) between the Spring Mountains to the northwest and southwest and the Bird Spring Range to the northeast. Goodsprings Valley drains southeast into the Ivanpah Valley. The valley is the location of the town of Goodsprings, Nevada in the midst of the basin.
Black Butte is the summit of a small range of hills on the northwest edge of Mesquite Valley and the southern end of the Pahrump Valley in Clark County, Nevada. It has an elevation of 3,320 feet / 1,010 meters.
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.
Willow Wash is an ephemeral stream or wash in San Bernardino County, California. Its mouth is west northwest of Seventeen Mile Point at an elevation of 1,519 feet / 463 meters. From Seventeen Mile Point, its course breaks up into several distributary washes that run west and southwest toward Soda Lake. The wash has its source at an elevation of 1379 feet, at 35°11′42″N115°40′50″W north of the Marl Mountains. It runs southwest with heavy sands south and west of the Cima Volcanic Range and Volcanic Fields, parallels Kelbaker Road, turning northward until it reaches Seventeen Mile Point.
Clark Fork is a stream in Cooper County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Petite Saline Creek.
Pinto Valley is a basin in the Black Mountains of Clark County, Nevada. It lies at an elevation of 1,759 feet.
Gillespie Creek is an intermittent stream or arroyo in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Gillespie Creek is 11 miles long, that heads in the Animas Mountains at 31°37′10″N108°42′40″W, and flows northeasterly until it ends in the Playas Valley, at an elevation of 4,587 feet. Its waters in flood would reach Playas Lake. Its mouth is located 24 miles south southeast of Animas. Bennett Creek is a tributary that has its confluence with Gillespie Creek at 31°38′56″N108°37′23″W an elevation of 4,902 feet.
Ferber Hills is a range of hills in Elko County, Nevada and Tooele County, Utah. The range is formed in three parallel ridges of hills trending northwest to southeast. Its highest summit is Utah Peak, in the center of the central ridge of the range, at an elevation of 6,680 feet, just east of the state line in Tooele County, Utah. Its second highest Summit is Ferber Peak, that rises to and elevation of 6,601 feet, at the south end of the southernmost ridge of the range at 40°12′43″N114°03′18″W just west of the state line in Elko County, Nevada. The highest point in the smaller northernmost ridge is an unnamed summit at 40°17′12″N113°59′48″W with an elevation of 5,745 feet in Tooele County.
