Indian Springs Valley (Nevada)

Indian Springs Valley
The Indian Springs Valley is the location of Creech Air Force Base (formerly Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field).
Geography
LocationUnited States, Nevada

Indian Springs Valley (Basin 161) is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins in the Clark County portion of the Nevada Test and Training Range and includes Creech Air Force Base and the communities of Cactus Springs and Indian Springs, Nevada.[1] The south side of the valley is along the "Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone",[2]: 8  and to the east is the Pintwater Range, to the southeast is the Las Vegas Valley, to the south are foothills near the Spring Mountains, to the southwest is Mercury Valley, and to the west is the Spotted Range.[2]: 13  The valley's drainage basin receives ~500 acre-feet (620,000 m3) of annual precipitation[1] and is a southern portion of the Sand Springs-Tikaboo Watershed where it meets the Ivanpah-Pahrump Watershed.[1] The Wheeler Survey in 1869 passed through the Indian Springs Valley.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Garland, Steven (Colonel, USAF). "tbd" (legal protest). Water.NV.gov. p. 2. Retrieved 2010-11-13. Three Lakes Valley - North (Basin 168), Three Lakes Valley - South (Basin 211), Tikaboo Valley - North (Basin 169A), and Tikaboo Valley - South (Basin 169B){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b Naff, Richard L; Maxey, George B; Kaufmann, Robert F. Interbasin Ground-Water Flow in Southern Nevada. p. 13. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  3. ^ "Origins of the National Test Site" (PDF). Department of Energy. p. 8. Retrieved 2010-11-13. On October 29, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range. ... The Army set up four emergency landing strips on the range. One was on Groom Lake east of the site. Another was on Pahute Mesa toward the north and west part of the site. The remaining two landing strips were further to the north and west on the range.


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