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Huntington Creek. Jarbidge River. Kings River. Little Humboldt River. Little Owyhee River. Marys River. Meadow Valley Wash. Muddy River. North Fork Humboldt River.
Salmon Falls Creek. Sheep Creek (Bruneau River tributary) Smith Creek (Lander County, Nevada) South Fork Humboldt River. South Fork South Twin River. Steamboat Creek (Nevada)
Humboldt River. The Humboldt River is an extensive river drainage system located in north-central Nevada. It extends in a general east-to-west direction from its headwaters in the Jarbidge, Independence, and Ruby Mountains in Elko County, to its terminus in the Humboldt Sink, approximately 225 miles (362 km) away in northwest Churchill County. [4]
The Carson River is a northwestern Nevada river that empties into the Carson Sink, an endorheic basin.The main stem of the river is 131 miles (211 km) long [4] although the addition of the East Fork makes the total length 205 miles (330 km), traversing five counties: Alpine County in California and Douglas, Storey, Lyon, and Churchill Counties in Nevada, as well as the Consolidated ...
The average annual rainfall per year is about 7 inches (180 mm); the wettest parts get around 40 inches (1,000 mm). Nevada's highest recorded temperature is 125 °F (52 °C) at Laughlin on June 29, 1994, and the lowest recorded temperature is −50 °F (−46 °C) at San Jacinto on January 8, 1937. Nevada's 125 °F (52 °C) reading is the third ...
Walker River. The Walker River is a river in west-central Nevada in the United States, approximately 62 miles (100 km) long. Fed principally by snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada of California, it drains an arid portion of the Great Basin southeast of Reno and flows into the endorheic basin of Walker Lake. The river is an important source of water ...
The White River (northwest portion of map) is bordered on three sides by endorheic basins of the Great Basin. The White River is a small and discontinuous 138-mile-long (222 km) [1] river located in southeastern Nevada notable for several endemic species of fish. [2] The river was named for F. A. White, a 19th-century explorer.
The Quinn River is the largest river in the region, starting in the Santa Rosa Range and ending in the Quinn River Sink on the playa south of the Black Rock Range.The watershed covers 11,600 sq mi (30,000 km 2) [1] including the Upper and Lower Quinn River, Smoke Creek Desert, Massacre Lake, and Thousand Creek [3] /Virgin Valley [4] watersheds of northwestern Nevada as well as small parts ...