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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 ...
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]
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.
U.S. Forest Service / USDA. The Carson–Iceberg Wilderness is a federal wilderness area located 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Stockton, California. It encompasses 160,000 acres (650 km 2) [1] and was designated by the California Wilderness Act of 1984. It protects an area of High Sierra landscape with elevations from 4,800 feet (1,500 m) to ...
Fallon, home to the Naval Air Station Fallon or TOPGUN, is an agricultural community along the last usable water of the Carson River. The town is located just south of the river's terminus at the Carson Sink. Leaving Fallon, the highway passes by ancient petroglyph sites at Grimes Point and then Sand Mountain, a 600-foot (180 m) sand dune. [15]
A map of the Carson River basin. Hope Valley is situated along the California portion of its west fork , where the river makes a sharp eastward turn after initially flowing north. Situated on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the upper end of the valley begins about four miles (6.4 km) northeast of Carson Pass , near the ...
NRHP reference No. 81000381 [1] MARKER No. 215. Added to NRHP. March 25, 1981. The Lahontan Dam is a dam situated on the Carson River in the Carson Desert [2] between Carson City, Nevada and Fallon, Nevada in the United States. Its impoundment is known as the Lahontan Reservoir or Lake Lahontan. It is currently operated by the Truckee-Carson ...
315. Carson Pass is a mountain pass on the crest of the central Sierra Nevada, in the Eldorado National Forest and Alpine County, eastern California. The pass is traversed by California State Route 88. It lies on the Great Basin Divide, with the West Fork Carson River on the east and the South Fork American River on the west.