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St. Thomas, Nevada is a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada, near where the Muddy River flows into the Colorado River. St. Thomas was purchased by the US Federal Government and abandoned as the waters of Lake Mead submerged the town in the 1930s. However, as the level of Lake Mead dropped in the 2000s, the ruins of the town resurfaced. It is now located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
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The Las Vegas Nevada Temple is the 43rd operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The temple was announced by church leaders in April 1984.
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Mormon Island was once a mining town, which had an abundance of Mormon immigrants seeking gold in the American River during the California Gold Rush. Its site is in present-day Sacramento County, California.
Bronge is a former settlement in Fresno County, California. It was located on the Fresno Interurban Railroad 4.25 miles (6.8 km) south-southeast of Clovis, at an elevation of 338 feet. Bronge still appeared on maps as of 1923.
Cameo is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. It is located on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Clovis, at an elevation of 331 feet.
Fort Camp is a former settlement in Fresno County, California. It was located on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and the Fresno Interurban Railroad 4.25 miles (6.8 km) south-southeast of Clovis, at an elevation of 341 feet. It still appeared on maps as of 1923.
The Virgin Valley is a valley in northwest Arizona and southeast Nevada on the Virgin River. The Virgin River drains southwest Utah and southeast Nevada; parts of Arizona, especially the Arizona Strip region drain southwards into the Virgin River and Valley.
Callville is a former settlement of Clark County in the U.S. state of Nevada. Abandoned in 1869, it was submerged under Lake Mead when the Colorado River was dammed, Callville Bay retaining the name. At one time, it was noted to be the southernmost outpost of the Mormon settlement.
Hamblin Bay is a bay of Lake Mead on the Colorado River, to the east of Las Vegas and Callville Bay in the U.S. state of Nevada. It lies between Sandy Cove which lies to the west and Rotary Cove and Rufus Cove which lie to the east. Hamblin Bay is also a fault of the same name in the vicinity, which "strikes at a low angle to the easternmost mapped branch of the Las Vegas Shear Zone".
Gold Butte is the name of a ghost town and nearby mountain peak in Clark County, Nevada. Both are protected as part of the Gold Butte National Monument, managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Gold Butte, the mountain, is 5,013 feet (1,528 m) high and rises 1,280 feet (390 m) above the town of Gold Butte. This peak lies within the Virgin Mountains and its name apparently refers to the Gold Butte Mining District.
Stone's Ferry is a former Mormon settlement and ferry crossing of the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona, in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
Boulder Canyon, originally Devils Gate Canyon, is a canyon on the Colorado River, above Hoover Dam, now flooded by Lake Mead. It lies between Clark County, Nevada and Mohave County, Arizona. It heads at western end of the Virgin River Basin of Lake Mead, at about 36°09′05″N114°32′51″W. Boulder Canyon divides the Black Mountains into the Black Mountains of Arizona, and the Black Mountains of Nevada. Its mouth is now under the eastern end of the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead, between Canyon Point in Nevada and Canyon Ridge in Arizona. Its original mouth is now underneath Lake Mead between Beacon Rock and Fortification Ridge on the southern shore in Arizona.
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California Wash is an arroyo tributary to the Muddy River, in Clark County, Nevada. Its mouth is at its confluence with the Muddy River over a mile southwest of Moapa and a mile and a half west of Glendale, Nevada. Its source is at an elevation of 3320 feet at the southwestern end of the Muddy Mountains, at 36°17′14″N114°48′09″W. From there it drains northeastward to its mouth on the Muddy River.
Mormon Mesa is a mesa between the Virgin River and the Muddy River in Clark County, southern Nevada.
Toquop Wash is a stream in Clark County, and Lincoln County, Nevada. Its mouth is at its confluence with the Virgin River at an elevation of 1,470 feet (450 m) in Clark County. Its source is at 37°02′25″N114°18′49″W at an elevation of 2,920 feet (890 m), above Toquop Gap between the East Mormon Mountains and Tule Springs Hills, at the confluence of Garden Wash and Sams Camp Wash in Lincoln County.
Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail, was a seasonal wagon road first pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers and the Old Spanish Trail across southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert of California to Los Angeles in 1847. From 1855, it became a military and commercial wagon route between California and Utah, called the Los Angeles - Salt Lake Road. In later decades this route was variously called the "Old Mormon Road", the "Old Southern Road", or the "Immigrant Road" in California. In Utah, Arizona and Nevada it was known as the "California Road".
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Virgin Hill
- ↑ Avertt, Walter R., Directory of Southern Nevada Place Names, Revised edition: printed by the author, 1963.
Coordinates: 36°45′53″N114°13′25″W / 36.76472°N 114.22361°W
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