The Sheep Range is located north of Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States . It is found in both Clark and Lincoln Counties in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge . The mountains reach a peak at Hayford Peak , 9,912 feet (3,021 m) above sea level between the Las Vegas Range to the east and the Desert Range to the west. The Sheep Range lies in a generally north-south direction.
4-852: The Great Basin Divide starts an east-west transect at the northeast of the Spring Mountains , with the east-west transect border south being all of the Las Vegas Valley , and a midsection, north perimeter of the watershed for the Las Vegas Wash . The Great Basin Divide transect goes through the south region of the Sheep Range, and the transect ends eastwards at the Utah border, the Clover and Bull Valley Mountains . The range
8-801: The Great Basin from the Pacific Ocean watershed, which completely surrounds it. The Great Basin is the largest set of contiguous endorheic watersheds of North America , including six entire USGS watershed subregions . It contains the watersheds of several large prehistoric and still-existing lakes, most notably Lake Bonneville , Lake Lahontan , Lake Manly , and the Salton Sea . As such, it occupies most of present-day Nevada, about half of Utah, large parts of eastern California and Oregon, and small parts of Idaho, Wyoming, and Baja California. The arid climate of this area ensures that none of
12-661: The major lake basins are filled to overflowing, and thus no precipitation falling into them reaches the sea. Precipitation falling on the exterior of the Great Basin Divide does (if not evaporated or consumed on the way) reach the Pacific Ocean, through a number of different channels. Roughly speaking, the area to the north and northeast of the Great Basin drains into the Columbia River , mostly via
16-488: Was named for mountain sheep which roamed there. This Clark County , Nevada state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Lincoln County , Nevada state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Great Basin Divide Download coordinates as: The Great Basin Divide in the western United States is the ridgeline that separates
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