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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 ...
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]
The park is located in a part of Nevada that in prehistoric times was under Lake Lahontan. When the lake had receded lower than the present-day reservoir, by about 23,000 years ago, animals such as camels, horses, rabbits, and squirrels would drink from the river, and some of their fossils have been found about 14 miles (23 km) north of the dam.
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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 .
Pershing County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,650. [1] Its county seat is Lovelock. [2] The county is listed as Nevada Historical Marker 17. The marker is at the courthouse in Lovelock. [3] The Black Rock Desert, location for the annual Burning Man event, is partially in the county.
The Seven Troughs Range is a mountain range in western Pershing County, Nevada. [1] The name is derived from a series of seven stock watering troughs placed below a set springs. [2] [3] Neighboring features include: [4] [5] the Kamma and Antelope ranges to the north; the Majuba Mountains to the northeast
The largest municipality by land area is Boulder City, which spans 208.52 sq mi (540.1 km 2), while Lovelock is the smallest at 0.85 sq mi (2.2 km 2). [2] The first place in Nevada to incorporate was Carson City, on March 1, 1875, and the most recent place was Fernley, on July 1, 2001. [5] [6]