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The lake bed lies between the Lake Range on the west and the Nightingale Mountains and Selenite Range to the east. Winnemucca Lake is about 45 km (28 mi) long and about 7 km (4.3 mi) wide. The lake bed is at an elevation of 1,150 m (3,770 ft), [3] [4] which is below the water level of adjacent Pyramid Lake. [5]
Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California) Petroglyph Point Archeological Site; Ring Mountain (California) ... Valley of Fire State Park; Winnemucca Lake; New ...
The Lake Range is a mountain range located in western Nevada in the United States. It is entirely in Washoe County , and the southern two-thirds are in the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation . The range runs north-south for approximately 36 miles (58 km) and a width of generally less than 8 mi (13 km).
The highest peak has an elevation of 2,511 m (8,238 ft) which is 1,353 m (4,439 ft) above the elevation of the dry Winnemucca Lake bed at about 1,158 m (3,799 ft). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The site of Nightingale and its large tungsten mine (abandoned in the 1950s) are at the southern end of the east slope.
The Winnemucca Indian Colony of Nevada has a reservation at in Humboldt County, Nevada. The reservation was established on June 18, 1917, and comprises two parcels of land, 20 acres (0.081 km 2 ) enclosed within the urban area of the City of Winnemucca centered on Cinnabar Street, and 320 acres (1.3 km 2 ) of rural land on the southern edge of ...
[5] This claim is ironic because Chief Winnemucca could not read. [6] Wells report stated that he took 29 of his command and two civilian guides toward Mud Lake (now Winnemucca Lake) where the camp was located. Wells intended to arrest the thieves and wrote that the Paiutes began firing once the cavalry approached. [1]
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The general route of I-80 was first used by California-bound travelers and was called the California Trail. From the Utah state line west to the Humboldt River, I-80 follows a modified routing of a lesser used branch of the trail called Hastings Cutoff. The cutoff rejoins the main route of the trail in the Humboldt River canyon.