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The source of the main stem of the river is a spring called Humboldt Wells at the northern tip of the East Humboldt Range, just outside the city of Wells. The river flows west-southwest through Elko County, past the communities of Elko and Carlin. Approximately 15 miles (24 km) upstream from Elko, the river receives the North Fork of the ...
Snake River (ID) Owyhee River. South Fork Owyhee River. Little Owyhee River; Bruneau River. Jarbidge River; Salmon Falls Creek; ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State ...
The Truckee Meadows is a valley in western Nevada located within the western Great Basin. Named for the Truckee River, which flows through the valley from west to east, this area contains archaeological evidence of aboriginal human occupation. [2] The Truckee Formation, is the oldest deposit of the valley and yields very little water to wells.
The Truckee River's source is the outlet of Lake Tahoe, at the dam on the northwest side of the lake near Tahoe City, California. It flows generally northeast through the mountains to Truckee, California, then turns sharply to the east and flows into Nevada, through Reno and Sparks and along the northern end of the Carson Range.
Gold-bearing skarn in the Battle Mountain region of northeast Nevada is an important target for mining. Up to 263 polymetallic veins contain sphalerite, galena, jamesonite and tetrahedrite. Polymetallic molybdenum, antimony, uranium, copper, gold zinc, lead and silver ores have been mined in the Reese River area since the 1800s. [citation needed]
The Great Basin's longest and largest river is the Bear River of 350 mi (560 km), [10] and the largest single watershed is the Humboldt River drainage of roughly 17,000 sq mi (44,000 km 2). Most Great Basin precipitation is snow, and the precipitation that neither evaporates nor is extracted for human use will sink into groundwater aquifers ...
The East Fork Carson River is the largest tributary of the Carson River, flowing through California and Nevada in the western United States. The north-flowing river is 61 miles (98 km) long [ 3 ] and drains a mostly rural, mountainous watershed of 392 square miles (1,020 km 2 ).
The river drains 1,345 square miles (3,480 km 2), [2] mostly in the western slope and foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The average runoff of the Yuba River basin is approximately 2,303,000 acre-feet (2.841 km 3) per year, [4] providing about one-third of the flow of the Feather River, and 10 percent of the flow of the Sacramento River, which the ...