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  2. Humboldt Sink - Wikipedia

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    The Humboldt Sink is an intermittent dry lake bed, approximately 11 mi (18 km) long, and 4 mi (6 km) across, in northwestern Nevada in the United States. The body of water in the sink is known as Humboldt Lake. The sink and its surrounding area was a notorious and dreaded portion (called the Forty Mile Desert) of overland travel to California ...

  3. Humboldt River - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Lovelock Cave - Wikipedia

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    Lovelock Cave (NV-Ch-18) is a North American archaeological site previously known as Sunset Guano Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Loud Site 18. The cave is about 150 feet (46 m) long and 35 feet (11 m) wide. [1] Lovelock Cave is one of the most important classic sites of the Great Basin region because the conditions of the cave are conducive to the ...

  5. Lake Humboldt - Wikipedia

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    Lake Humboldt or Humboldt Lake is an endorheic basin lake in northern Churchill County and southern Pershing County in the state of Nevada in the United States. [2] The lake has the name of Alexander von Humboldt, a German natural scientist. [3] The lake receives the Humboldt River from the north but has no outlet.

  6. Humboldt Wildlife Management Area - Wikipedia

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    Humboldt Wildlife Management Area. The salt marsh at the end of the Humboldt River within Humboldt WMA. The Humboldt Sink as seen from the West Humboldt Range. The Humboldt Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is a wildlife management area in the U.S. state of Nevada, encompassing the salt marshes at the terminus of the Humboldt River. [2]

  7. Carson Sink - Wikipedia

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    The incident was never resolved and is known today as the Carson Sink UFO incident. [8] In 1984, the natural dike between the Carson Sink and the Humboldt Sink was breached by the Nevada Department of Transportation to prevent Interstate 80 and the town of Lovelock from flooding due to unusually heavy snowfall in the preceding three years. The ...

  8. California Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Humboldt River is fed by melting snow flowing from the Ruby and other mountains in north central Nevada and runs over 300 miles (480 km) mostly westward across the Great Basin to the Humboldt Sink in western Nevada where it evaporates. The Great Basin covers essentially all of Nevada and parts of Utah, Idaho, Oregon and California and has ...

  9. Lahontan Valley - Wikipedia

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    The Lahontan Valley is a basin in Churchill County, Nevada, United States. [1] The valley is a landform of the central portion of the prehistoric Lake Lahontan 's lakebed of 20,000-9,000 years ago. The valley and the adjacent Carson Sink represent a small portion of the lake bed. Humboldt Lake is to the valley's northeast.

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