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GNIS feature ID. 2408791 [2] Spring Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in central Elko County, in northeastern Nevada in the western United States. It mainly serves as a bedroom community for the businesses and industries in and around the nearby city of Elko. It is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Official website. Cold Creek is an unincorporated community in Clark County, Nevada, United States located within the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area and approximately 28 miles by road from the Las Vegas city limits. [1] Cold Creek is named for the stream that flows through the community. Cold Creek is a popular community for ...
In 1993, Spring Creek High School was built to help with the population boom in Elko County. SCHS sits in the middle of Spring Creek, Nevada, a small bedroom community just south of Elko. Spring Creek has a population just over 10,000. It has a total area of 58.7 square miles (152 km 2). The first graduating class at Spring Creek High was the ...
Halleck lies at the interchange of Interstate 80 and State Route 229 northeast of the city of Elko. [1] Its elevation is 5,230 feet (1,590 m). [2] The community is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area. Halleck has a post office with the ZIP code 89824. [3]
The Spring Mountains are a sky island ecosystem. 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 ...
Coordinates: 37°17′35″N 115°07′28″W. A ranch near Ash Springs. The Pahranagat Valley is a Tonopah Basin landform in Lincoln County, Nevada. [1] The more fertile part of Pahranagat Valley is a narrow ribbon of green (no more than 1-mile (1.6 km) wide), like an oasis in the vast Nevada desert. It is approximately 40 miles (64 km) long ...
This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Elko County, Nevada, highlighting Spring Creek in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape. Date: 25 October 2007: Source: My own work, based on public domain information. Based on similar map concepts by Ixnayonthetimmay: Author ...
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, a United States National Monument near Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, was established in 2014 to protect Ice Age paleontological discoveries. The 22,650-acre (9,170 ha) monument is administered by the National Park Service. [1] The national monument is located in the Upper Las Vegas Wash and ...