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This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Washoe County, Nevada. Highlighting Reno in red . It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape.
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.
Lemmon Valley is located at (39.6638, -119.8270), [4] some 10 miles (16 km) north of downtown Golden Valley is adjacent to the south.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 18.4 square miles (47.6 km 2), of which 17.2 square miles (44.5 km 2) is land and 1.2 square miles (3.1 km 2), or 6.57%, is water, [3] consisting mainly of the Swan Lake Nature Study Area ...
The Swan Lake Nature Study Area (formerly called Lemmon Valley Marsh) is a small conservation area in Lemmon Valley, Nevada. It contains marsh , alkali mud flats, and high desert . The Lahontan Audubon Society describes it as "a nearly unspoiled wetland in the midst of suburban housing and warehouses" and designates it a Nevada Important Bird Area.
Washoe County is the second-most populous county of Nevada. Its county seat is Reno. Washoe County includes the Reno–Sparks metropolitan area. Lyon County is the third most populous county. It was one of the nine original counties created in 1861. It was named after Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union General to be killed in the Civil War.
Steamboat Creek drains Washoe Lake, flowing north to northeast through Truckee Meadows and finally intersecting the Truckee River, east of Reno, Nevada. Historical documents indicate that in the early 1860s there were at least six mills reducing Comstock ore in Washoe Valley and during these earliest days of the Comstock mining.
The Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Western Nevada, anchored by the cities of Reno and Sparks. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 490,596.
Cold Springs is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. [2] It is known as Eitse'ihpaa or Eitse'ippaa (literally "cold water" or "cold spring") in Shoshoni. [3] It is located just off U.S. Route 395 in the northwestern part of the Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area, adjacent to the California state line.