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Sand Mountain is a singing sand dune 20 miles (32 km) east of Fallon, Nevada along U.S. Route 50. The dune is two miles long and 600 feet (180 m) high. [2] The full sand field area is 3.25 square miles. [3] The sand originates from the ancient Lake Lahontan, that for the most part dried up 9,000 years ago.
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Nestled against the south end of the range is Sand Mountain, an enormous 600-foot (180 m) tall sand dune which draws off-road vehicle enthusiasts from across Nevada and California. A series of earthquakes measuring 6.6–7.1 on the Richter Scale , centered beneath or near the Stillwater Range, occurred between July and December 1954.
The Sand Springs Station is a historic site in Churchill County, Nevada that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. A Pony Express station existed there in 1860. [1] [2] The ruins are located within the boundaries of the Sand Mountain Recreation Area. The station was named for a sand-filled summit from which a spring ...
Gold Butte National Monument, southeastern Nevada. The monument consists of 296,937 acres (120,166 ha). [1] The Gold Butte National Monument fills a gap between Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, creating a continuous swath of conserved land and establishing a wildlife corridor. [2]
Alvin R. McLane, Silent Cordilleras: The Mountain Ranges of Nevada. (Reno: Camp Nevada Monograph #4, 1978) (Reno: Camp Nevada Monograph #4, 1978) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) , USGS
Sand Mountain (Alabama), a sandstone plateau in the Appalachian foothills of northeast Alabama (and, to a far lesser extent, extreme northwest Georgia) Sand Mountain (Florida), a hill in Florida; Sand Mountain (Nevada), a singing sand dune in Nevada; Sand Mountain Volcanic Field, a volcanic field in Oregon; Sand Mountain (Chester County, Tennessee)
The Sand Springs Range is a short mountain range located in western Nevada in the United States within the Great Basin. [1] It is approximately 10 miles (16 km) long and is in Churchill County. It separates Salt Wells (to the west) from Fairview Valley (to the east). To the north, it is separated from the Stillwater Range by Sand