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It is located on land managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, part of the Rainbow Mountain Wilderness Area. It is the highest peak in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Mount Wilson is 17 miles (27 km) west of downtown Las Vegas in Clark County, Nevada.
The CDP is located on Mount Wilson Road, 8 miles (13 km) east of U.S. Route 93, along which it is 23 miles (37 km) south to Pioche and 84 miles (135 km) north to Ely. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Mount Wilson CDP has an area of 4.6 square miles (11.9 km 2 ), all of it land.
Mount Wilson, New South Wales, a mountain with a small hamlet; United States. Mount Wilson (Arizona) Mount Wilson (California) Mount Wilson Observatory; Mount Wilson (Colorado) Mount Wilson, Nevada, a census-designated place in Lincoln County; Mount Wilson (Clark County, Nevada) Mount Wilson (Lyon County, Nevada) Mount Wilson (Vermont)
Map of the United States with Nevada highlighted. Nevada is a state located in the Western United States. ... Mount Wilson: CDP: Lincoln: 26 Mountain City: CDP: Elko ...
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
Mount Wilson is a summit in the U.S. state of Nevada. [1] The elevation is 6,745 feet (2,056 m). [1] Mount Wilson was named after David Wilson. [2] References
Boundary Peak is the highest summit in the U.S. State of Nevada. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [Notes 1] of the U.S. State of Nevada. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level.
The company entered into a 99-year lease with the Carnegie Institution in 1905, providing 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of the mountain top for the location of a new observatory, today known as the Mount Wilson Observatory. Those involved with the new observatory were given free use of the toll road and half the water rights on the mountain.