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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 ...
Empire and the Carson River mills. / 39.18500°N 119.71333°W / 39.18500; -119.71333. Empire and Carson River mills is an historic area in Carson City, Nevada. The mills were established along the Carson River near Empire, [1] now part of Carson City (not to be confused with Empire in Washoe County).
20,300 cu ft/s (570 m 3 /s) The East Fork Carson River is the largest tributary of the Carson River, flowing through California and Nevada in the western United States. The north-flowing river is 61 miles (98 km) long [3] and drains a mostly rural, mountainous watershed of 392 square miles (1,020 km 2). [3]
300 sq mi (780 km 2) Carson Sink is a playa in the northeastern portion of the Carson Desert in present-day Nevada, United States of America, that was formerly the terminus of the Carson River. Today the sink is fed by drainage canals of the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District. The southeastern fringe of the sink, where the canals enter, is a ...
44. Carson City is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. [ 3 ] As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the 6th most populous city in the state. The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 miles (50 km ...
Great Flood of 1862. The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundating the western United States and portions of British Columbia and Mexico. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862.
Because of the availability of water from the Carson River, it soon became the first major milling center of the Comstock, and grew rapidly—from 78 residents in 1860 to 2,500 in 1865. [7] Its 1864 courthouse was one of the first in Nevada. Union Hotel, Dayton, built in the early 1870s
8,100 cu ft/s (230 m 3 /s) The West Fork Carson River is a major tributary of the Carson River, about 35 miles (56 km) long, [2] in Alpine County, California, and Douglas County, Nevada, in the United States. It rises in the Sierra Nevada of California, at Lost Lakes near Carson Pass in the Mokelumne Wilderness of Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.