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  2. Las Vegas Wash - Wikipedia

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    Las Vegas Wash is a 12-mile-long stream (an "arroyo" or "wash") which feeds most of the Las Vegas Valley's excess water into Lake Mead. The wash is sometimes called an urban river , and it exists in its present capacity because of an urban population.

  3. Clark County Regional Flood Control District - Wikipedia

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    Since Las Vegas is located in a basin with a single outlet, the Las Vegas Wash, all rain runoff drains to the east side of the basin where it will eventually be deposited into Lake Mead. Rainfall in the surrounding mountain ranges, can cause flooding in the area as water flows off the mountains onto the valley floor. The area is also subject to ...

  4. Las Vegas Valley - Wikipedia

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    The valley in the northwest section is a northwest-by-southeast [21] trending area, and trending parallel to Las Vegas Wash, lies at the northeast of the Spring Mountains massif. U.S. Route 95 leaves Las Vegas's northwest and goes northwesterly through the northwest valley section, with Las Vegas Wash about 2 miles (3 km) [22] northeast.

  5. Las Vegas Bay - Wikipedia

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    Las Vegas Bay where Las Vegas Wash empties into it. View of Las Vegas Bay from an airplane. Las Vegas Bay is a bay at the western edge of Lake Mead in the U.S. state of Nevada. The bay is located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area to the northeast of the city of Henderson, Nevada, near the junction of Lake Mead Drive and Lake Mead ...

  6. Corn Creek, Nevada - Wikipedia

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    The community is located along the former Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad where it had a station. It is approximately 7.5 miles from the Las Vegas city limits by road and is situated south of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge border and bordered to the west, south, and east with the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument .

  7. Clark County Wetlands Park - Wikipedia

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    In the wetlands, looking west. The Clark County Wetlands Park is the largest park in the Clark County, Nevada park system. The park is on the east side of the Las Vegas valley and runs from the various water treatment plants near the natural beginning of the Las Vegas Wash to where the wash flows under Lake Las Vegas and later into Lake Mead.

  8. Category:Washes of Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Las Vegas Wash; P. Piute Wash; T. Tongue Wash; W. West End Wash This page was last edited on 11 September 2016, at 16:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...

  9. Tule Springs - Wikipedia

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    The wash, also known as the Upper Las Vegas Wash feeds into the Las Vegas Wash. [2] The wash area also includes several patches of the rare Las Vegas bear poppy. This area is part of Ice Age Fossils State Park, a 23,000-acre (9,300 ha) conservation area, and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, established in 2014. [3] [4] [5] [6]

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