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1983 Map of Desert Hills NE

Name: 1983 Topographic Map of Desert Hills NE
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1983
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1983

About this map

The Pahranagat Range dominates this 1983 provisional survey, representing a landscape defined by significant federal land designations and topographical transitions in Lincoln County. The map details the eastern reaches of the Nellis Air Force Range, where a Restricted Boundary marks the interface between military operations and the Desert National Wildlife Range.

Mapping of this area reveals a series of prominent basins, specifically the Tikaboo Valley in the west and Desert Valley to the east. These broad desert floors are bisected by the high ridges of the mountains, illustrating the basin and range geology of the region. The inclusion of an Indefinite Boundary and the National Wildlife Range Boundary underscores the complex administrative and ecological divisions of this interior Nevada territory during the early 1980s.