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2. Carson River - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. East Fork Carson River - Wikipedia

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   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]

4. Fort Churchill State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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   Fort Churchill State Historic Park is a state park of Nevada, United States, preserving the remains of a United States Army fort and a way station on the Pony Express and Central Overland Routes dating back to the 1860s. The site is one end of the historic Fort Churchill and Sand Springs Toll Road. The park is in Lyon County south of the town ...

5. Empire and the Carson River mills - Wikipedia

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   39°11′06″N 119°42′48″W  /  39.18500°N 119.71333°W  / 39.18500; -119.71333 [1] Built. 1860. Nevada Historical Marker. Reference no. 1 [2] 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 ...

6. Carson City, Nevada - Wikipedia

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   Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, [3] is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. [4] 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 ...

7. John C. Frémont - Wikipedia

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   Staying on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, they went on south as far as present-day Minden, Nevada, reaching the Carson River on January 18, 1844. [23] From there Frémont turned west into the cold and snowy Sierra Nevada, becoming one of the first Americans to see Lake Tahoe. [23]

8. Carson Sink - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

9. Stillwater Marsh - Wikipedia

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   75001104 [1] Added to NRHP. March 19, 1975. Stillwater Marsh is an archaeology locality in the Carson Sink in western Nevada discovered when heavy flooding in the 1980s unearthed many human remains. The great diversity in plant life and altitudinally-determined microenvironments that surrounded the marsh helped to make it a popular place to ...