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Arriving there from California in 1866, the English settler George Lovelock (1824–1907) bought the squatters' right for 320 acres (129 ha) and received with it the oldest water rights on the Humboldt River. Although born in Wales, Lovelock was from an English family of Wiltshire origin that is known to family historians as the Lyneham Line. [3]
Rye Patch State Recreation Area is a 2,400-acre (970 ha) state park unit of Nevada, United States, adjoining Rye Patch Reservoir, an 11,000-acre (4,500 ha) impoundment on the Humboldt River, and the smaller Pitt-Taylor Reservoirs.
Location: Pershing County, Nevada: Coordinates: 1]: Purpose: Irrigation: Status: In use: Opening date: 1936: Operator(s): Pershing County Water Conservation District: Dam and spillways; Type of dam: Earth-fill: Impounds: Humboldt River: Height: 78 ft (24 m): Length: 1,074 ft (327 m): Reservoir; Creates: Rye Patch Reservoir: Total capacity: 213,000 acre⋅ft (263,000,000 m 3) [2]: Surface area ...
In June 2011, Richmond Mining LTD, an Australian mining company (RHM:ASX), received a special use permit to develop the Buena Vista Iron Ore Mine in Churchill County, Nevada. The permit includes a 25 miles (40 km) slurry pipeline north to Colado Siding [6] near Interstate 80 and annual use of up to 1,750 acre-feet (570,000,000 US gal) of water ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 9,658 square miles (25,010 km 2), of which 9,641 square miles (24,970 km 2) is land and 17 square miles (44 km 2) (0.2%) is water. [9] It is Nevada's fourth-largest county by area. The Santa Rosa Range runs through eastern Humboldt County.
Imlay is located in northern Pershing County, Nevada, along Interstate 80, with access from Exit 145. The town is 34 miles (55 km) west of Winnemucca and 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Lovelock . The Humboldt River flows past 2 miles (3 km) to the north, near its inlet into Rye Patch Reservoir .
The Carson Sink was a deep portion of the Pleistocene water body Lake Lahontan, [5] the lakebed of which is now the Lahontan Basin. The Carson Trail , used during the California Gold Rush across the Lahontan Basin, included a section through the Forty Mile Desert to the first drinkable water on the Carson River . [ 6 ]
The water is used for irrigation, municipal and domestic purposes. It was established in 1921. The Nevada Irrigation District owns and operates a system of ten reservoirs, many part of the Yuba-Bear Hydroelectric Project. These include: [1] Bowman Reservoir, 68,510 acre-feet (84,510,000 m 3) Combie Reservoir, 5,555 acre-feet (6,852,000 m 3)