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Pahranagat Valley

Structural and Tectonic Formations

The Pahranagat Valley is a Tonopah Basin landform in Lincoln County, Nevada, stretching about 40 miles north to south. Its most fertile section forms a narrow green ribbon no wider than a mile, an oasis in the Nevada desert fed by three natural springs, Hiko Springs, Crystal Springs, and Ash Springs, and dotted with four lakes, Nesbitt Lake and Frenchie Lake in the north and Upper and Lower Pahranagat Lake to the south. The southern half, including the two southern lakes, forms the Pahranagat Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The Mount Irish Range and Pahranagat Range border it on the west and the Hiko Range on the east, and State Route 318 and U.S. Route 93 run its length, passing the communities of Hiko, Ash Springs, Richardville, and Alamo. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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National Park or Reserve 1
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Erosion via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pahranagat Valley

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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Pahranagat Valley
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Source Wikidata: Pahranagat Valley
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1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: World Database on Protected Areas record: Pahranagat
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA record, field desig_eng
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"desig_eng": "National Wildlife Refuge"
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Pahranagat Valley (Wikipedia)
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The Pahranagat Valley is a Tonopah Basin landform in Lincoln County, Nevada.
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Wikidata: Pahranagat Valley
Wikidata Q2046344, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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