Nopah Range

Coordinates: 36°0′21.873″N 116°4′49.084″W / 36.00607583°N 116.08030111°W / 36.00607583; -116.08030111

Nopah Range
Mountain Range
Nopah Range as seem from the Chicago Valley
Country	United States
State	California
District	Inyo County
Coordinates	36°0′21.873″N 116°4′49.084″W / 36.00607583°N 116.08030111°W / 36.00607583; -116.08030111
Highest point
- elevation	1,941 m (6,368 ft)
Timezone	Pacific (UTC-8)
- summer (DST)	PDT (UTC-7)
Topo map	USGS Nopah Peak
location of Nopah Range in California [1]

The Nopah Range is located in Inyo County, California, USA, near the eastern border with Nevada.

Geography

The mountain range lies east of the adjacent Resting Spring Range, the Owlshead Mountains and lower Death Valley, and are north of the Kingston Range. The Amargosa River is to the west. They are located directly east of Shoshone, California, and the Chicago Valley, northeast of Tecopa, California, southwest of Pahrump, Nevada, and west of Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Nopah Range mountains reach an elevation of 6,395 feet above sea level at Nopah Peak, in the center of the range. The Nopah Range is approximately 26 miles long.

Nopah Range, near California State Route 127

See also

• Category: Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert

References

1. ^ "Nopah Range". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:246582. Retrieved 2009-05-04. 

• Allan, Stuart (2005). California Road and Recreation Atlas. Benchmark Maps. pp. 89 & 97. ISBN 0-929591-80-1.