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With an area around 860 square miles (2,200 km 2), and a vertical range of nearly 2 miles (3.2 km), the mountains encompass a wide variety of habitats, and the biological diversity is probably greater than anywhere else in Nevada; 37 species of trees are known (more than any other Nevadan range), and 600 species of vascular plants have been ...
Mountain Springs is an unincorporated community in Clark County in southern Nevada. [2] It is located in Mountain Springs Summit , the pass over the Spring Mountains through which Highway 160 connects Las Vegas and Pahrump .
The Spring Mountains National Recreation Area (SMNRA) is a U.S. national recreation area, administered by the U.S. Forest Service, west of Las Vegas, Nevada. It covers over 316,000 acres (494 sq mi; 1,280 km 2). The area runs from low meadows (around 3,000 feet or 910 meters above sea level), to the 11,918-foot (3,633 m) Mount Charleston.
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
Mountain Springs Summit [el. 5,502 ft (1,677 m)] is a mountain pass in the Spring Mountains of Southern Nevada in the United States.. The pass is on the summit of a ridge in the Spring Mountains between the Mount Charleston area and the rest of the Mojave Desert and is located on the border of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
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.
Mount Charleston, including Charleston Peak (Nuvagantu, literally "where snow sits", in Southern Paiute [5] or Nüpakatütün in Shoshoni [6]) at 11,916 feet (3,632 m), [7] is the highest mountain in both the Spring Mountains and Clark County, in Nevada, United States. It is the eighth-highest mountain in the state. [8]
Mountain Springs is a spring in the Spring Mountains in Clark County, Nevada. The spring lies at an elevation of 5,528 feet (1,685 m), north of the town of Mountain Springs, Nevada . [ 1 ]
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