Pahranagat Valley
37.293055555556 - 115.12444444444Koordinaten: 37 ° 17 ' 35 " N, 115 ° 7' 28 " W The Pahranagat Valley is located in the central part of the Lincoln County ( Nevada). A fictional products of the humorist Dan DeQuille in the daily Territorial Enterprise, entitled The Rolling Stones of Pahranagat made the valley in 1862, world famous.
The region of Crystal Springs, now used as a water sports and camping area was formerly an important stopover on the alternate route of the Mormon Trail.
1865 silver ore at Mount Irish was found and the present-day ghost town Logan experienced a short bloom. Even today, the ruins of a mill in Hiko are present in the earlier, the ore was processed.
In the late 19th century, the Pahranagat Valley was primarily an agricultural community.
The fertile part of the valley in a narrow green belt ( no wider than 1.5 km ), which is like an oasis in the vast Mojave Desert. The valley is about 60 kilometers long in a north-south direction and is supported by three major sources ( Hiko Springs, Crystal Springs and Ash Springs ) and several small fed with water. It has four lakes, two in the north of the valley ( the Nesbitt Lake and the Frenchie Lake ) and two in the south ( the Upper Pahranagat Lake and the Lower Pahranagat Lake ). The southern half of the valley was declared in 1963 to the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge.
To the west of the Pahranagat Valley bordering two Gebirgsgezüge - the Irish Range and the Pahraganat Range. In the east, the valley is bounded by the Hiko Range. The Nevada State Route 318 and U.S. Highway 93 run through the entire length of the valley.
The more inhabited places of the Pahranagat Valleys are Hiko, Ash Springs, and Alamo Richardsville. Of Alamo is the largest town, also by all schools of the valley are. The nearest major city to the Pahranagat Valley is 75 kilometers from the place Caliente.
The Pahranagat Valley is home to several rare animals like the freshwater snail Fluminicola merriami, the toad Bufo nelsoni, the Gila robusta jordani freshwater fish and Rhinichthys osculus velifer vole Microtus montanus and fucosus.