Sarcobatus Flat

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Sarcobatus Flat
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Coordinates 37°12′26″N117°5′43″W / 37.20722°N 117.09528°W / 37.20722; -117.09528 Coordinates: 37°12′26″N117°5′43″W / 37.20722°N 117.09528°W / 37.20722; -117.09528  
"Sarcobatus Flat". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.

Sarcobatus Flat is a closed valley in western Nye County, Nevada between Goldfield and Beatty. The Bullfrog Hills form the southern boundary and the Grapevine Mountains 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. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Nye County, Nevada county in Nevada, United States

Nye County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,946. Its county seat is Tonopah. At 18,159 square miles (47,030 km2), Nye is the largest county by area in the state and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States.

Goldfield, Nevada Census-designated place in Nevada, United States

Goldfield is an unincorporated community and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada. It is a census-designated place, with a resident population of 268 at the 2010 census, down from 440 in 2000. Goldfield is located 247 miles (398 km) southeast of Carson City, along U.S. Route 95.

Beatty, Nevada Unincorporated town in Nevada, United States

Beatty is an unincorporated town along the Amargosa River in Nye County in the U.S. state of Nevada. U.S. Route 95 runs through the town, which lies between Tonopah, about 90 miles (140 km) to the north, and Las Vegas, about 120 miles (190 km) to the southeast. State Route 374 connects Beatty to Death Valley National Park, about 8 miles (13 km) to the west.

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 in California. 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 occupies a portion along the northeast margin of the Flat. [1] [2] [3]

Scottys Junction, Nevada town

Scotty's Junction is an unincorporated community in the Sarcobatus Flat of Nye County, Nevada where State Route 267 meets with U.S. Route 95 at an elevation of 4,062 feet (1,238 m).

Slate Ridge

The Slate Ridge is a mountain range in Esmeralda County, Nevada. The elevation of the ridge is 6450 feet.

Stonewall Mountain is a summit in the U.S. state of Nevada. The elevation is 8,300 feet (2,500 m).

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. [5] 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. [4]

The Flat is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins [6] that, along with Cactus Flat to the northeast constitutes the larger Cactus-Sarcobatus Watershed. The flat is considered part of the Tonopah Basin and is separated from the Amargosa Valley of the Mojave Desert to the south.

Cactus Flat

Cactus Flat is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins in the Cactus-Sacrobatus Watershed, for which it is an eponym. The flat is the location of the Tonopah Test Range Airport and Tonopah Test Range, a component of the Nevada Test and Training Range used for weapons testing since the 1950s. The flat is also the site of the 615 sq mi (1,590 km2) Nevada Wild Horse Range of the Nellis Air Force Range.

<i>Sarcobatus</i> genus of plants

Sarcobatus is a North American genus of two species of flowering plants, formerly considered to be a single species. Common names for S. vermiculatus include greasewood, seepwood, and saltbush. Traditionally, Sarcobatus has been treated in the family Chenopodiaceae, but the APG III system of 2009 recognizes it as the sole genus in the family Sarcobataceae.

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. The south end is alternately called the "Amargosa River Valley'" or the "Tecopa Valley." Its northernmost point is around Beatty, Nevada and southernmost is Tecopa, California, where the Amargosa River enters into the Amargosa Canyon.

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Specter Range

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Yuha Buttes

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Bonnie Claire is a ghost town located in Nye County, Nevada. The settlement is located on the edge of Sarcobatus Flat adjacent to Nevada State Route 267. The mines of Slate Ridge lie to the northwest and the northernmost spur of the Amargosa Range, the Grapevine Mountains, is just to the south of the townsite. Bonnie Claire Flat extends to the southwest between the Slate Ridge and the Grapevines to the California border.

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Crater Flat is a flat in the Amargosa Desert in Nye County, western Nevada. The flat lies between Yucca Mountain on the east and the Bare Mountains to the west. The south end of the flat borders the Amargosa Valley.

References

  1. 1 2 Beatty, Nevada–California, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1986
  2. 1 2 Pahute Mesa, Nevada, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1979
  3. 1 2 Last Chance Range, California–Nevada, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1985
  4. 1 2 Salina Valley, California–Nevada, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1985
  5. ↑ Bonnie Claire, Nevada, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968
  6. ↑ "Boundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units". USGS.gov. Retrieved 2010-05-16. Central Nevada Desert Basin
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