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The Virgin Mountains are a mountain range of the northeastern Mojave Desert, located in Clark County, southeastern Nevada and Mohave County, northwestern Arizona.

Virgin Mountains
Virgin Mountains seen from the Northshore Drive along Lake Mead
Highest point
PeakVirgin Peak
Elevation7,946 ft (2,422 m)[1]
Coordinates36°36′10″N 114°06′42″W
Dimensions
Area116 sq mi (300 km2)[citation needed]
Geography
CountryUnited States
StatesNevada and Arizona
Historical (1928) photo of the southern Virgin Mountains and Grand Wash
Historical (1928) photo of the southern Virgin Mountains and Grand Wash

Geography


Virgin Peak, at 7,946 feet (2,422 m) in elevation, is the highest point in the range. The range is northeast of Lake Mead, and around 15 miles (24 km) south of the Nevada town of Mesquite.

Hydrologically, the range is located in the Lower Colorado—Lake Mead watershed. (USGS Huc 1501),[2]

91.6% of the range is managed by the Bureau of Land Management, with a section of the Virgin Peak area designated within the BLM Virgin Mountain Natural Area.[3]


Natural history


The range has many species of lizards, as well as the Panamint rattlesnake and glossy snake. Trees found in the range include Single-leaf pinyon pine (Pinus monophylla), Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica), White fir (Abies concolor), Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), and Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma), and Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum). The range has one endemic species of stick insect, Timema nevadense.[4]


See also



References


  1. "Query Form For The United States And Its Territories". U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Retrieved 2010-05-18.*"Virgin Peak (844592)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
  2. "Boundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units". USGS.gov. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
  3. Bureau of Land Management: Virgin Mountain Natural Area
  4. Strohecker, H. F. 1966. New Timema from Nevada and Arizona. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 42: 25-26



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Die Virgin Mountains sind eine kleine Gebirgskette im Grenzbereich zwischen den Großregionen Colorado-Plateau und Basin and Range im südöstlichen Teil des US-Bundesstaates Nevada und nordwestlichen Teil von Arizona. Das Gebirge verläuft auf dem linken Ufer des Virgin Rivers bis zu dessen Mündung in den Lake Mead mit einer Länge von ca. 60 km von Nordosten nach Südwesten. Bei einer maximalen Breite von 13 km umfasst es eine Fläche von etwa 300 Quadratkilometern. Die höchsten Erhebungen bilden der Virgin Peak mit 2461 Metern und der Mount Bangs mit 2442 Metern über dem Meeresspiegel. Der nächstgelegene Ort ist Mesquite in Nevada.
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