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The reservation is centered on Pyramid Lake, which comprises 25% of the reservation's area. The reservation also includes a sliver of Winnemucca Lake, most of the Lake Range, portions of the Virginia Mountains and Pah Rah Range, and the southern end of the Smoke Creek Desert. Three communities have developed on the reservation.
At the current lake level, the reservation has only a small frontage on Walker Lake. The bulk of the reservation (72.68%) is in Mineral County; with portions in Lyon County (14.37%) and Churchill County (12.95%). The reservation's land area is 529.970 square miles (1,372.616 km 2). In the 2000 census, it had a resident population of 853 persons ...
Pyramid State Recreation Area, the largest state recreation area in Illinois, contains 19,701 acres (7,973 ha). It is located within Perry County, and is administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (Illinois DNR). The nearest large town is Pinckneyville, Illinois. [1]
Though an executive order was issued in 1874 to establish the Pyramid Lake Reservation, the legal year of establishment is 1859. During the Reservation Period, Nevada gained residents but it was approved for admission to the Union during the American Civil War, when President Abraham Lincoln wanted to forestall Confederate influence here. While ...
The Gensburg-Markham Prairie dates its origins back to the closing years of the Wisconsin glaciation, when postglacial Lake Chicago deposited a large sand beach in what would later become a section of southern Cook County. The poorly drained, damp, sandy soil resisted successful farming, and early pioneer settlers left patches of tallgrass ...
Wadsworth is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census , the population was 3,517. [ 2 ] It is named after E. S. Wadsworth , who was a major stockholder for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad , which passes through the village.
Watersheds of Illinois is a list of basins or catchment areas into which the State of Illinois can be divided based on the place to which water flows.. At the simplest level, in pre-settlement times, Illinois had two watersheds: the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, with almost the entire State draining to the Mississippi, except for a small area within a few miles of the Lake.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 307 square miles (800 km 2), of which 306 square miles (790 km 2) is land and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2) (0.5%) is water. [3] The Illinois River flows along part of the county's eastern border.