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Searchlight is located at the junction of two highways; U.S. Route 95 which connects towards Boulder City and the Las Vegas Valley in the north and Needles, California, in the south, and Nevada State Route 164 which has its eastern terminus in Searchlight and heads west towards the California border from where it becomes Nipton Road and ...
Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness is a designated (2002) wilderness area in Nevada. [1] It comprises 6,050 acres (2,450 ha) [2] and has an expanse of old-growth Joshua trees. "Wee Thump" means "ancient ones" in the language of the Paiute people. This Bureau of Land Management wilderness is a few miles west of Searchlight, Nevada.
The monument surrounds excluded areas around the towns of Searchlight, Palm Gardens and Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada. [9] The monument includes all of the Spirit Mountain, South McCullough, Wee Thump Joshua Tree, Nellis Wash, and Bridge Canyon wilderness areas and a portion of Ireteba Peaks Wilderness. [10]
Walking Box Ranch, 7 mi (11 km) west of Searchlight, Nevada in the Mojave Desert, was founded in 1931 by the actors Rex Bell and Clara Bow as a working 400,000 acres (160,000 ha) ranch. [2] [3] The ranch covered 160 acres (65 ha) [4] at the time it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 30, 2009. [5]
Homestake Mine is located in the Newberry Mountains near Searchlight, Nevada. [2] It is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places [3] for activities between 1850 and 1924. Gold and silver were mined. [4]
Searchlight Airport (FAA LID: 1L3) is a public use airport owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and located two nautical miles (4 km) south of Searchlight, in Clark County, Nevada, United States. [1] The airport is approximately 70 miles (110 km) south of Las Vegas.
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Cottonwood Cove is situated at the banks of Lake Mohave on the Nevada-Arizona border in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It stands just 13.1 miles (21 kilometers) and 23 minutes east of Searchlight, 12.5 miles (20 kilometers) north of Laughlin and an hour away from Las Vegas. It is the site of the Cottonwood Cove Resort and Marina.