Pah Rah Range
Pah Rah Range | |
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Highest point | |
Peak | Virginia Peak |
Elevation | 2,547 m (8,356 ft) |
Geography | |
Country | United States |
State | Nevada |
District | USGS Nixon, Wadsworth and Spanish Springs Valley 15 minute quads |
The Pah Rah Range is a
The highest peaks (in order from south to north) are Pond Peak (elevation 8,035 ft (2,449 m)),[2] Virginia Peak (elevation 8,357 ft (2,547 m)) and Pah Rah Peak (elevation 8,249 ft (2,514 m)).[3] In the southwest portion Spanish Springs Peak (elevation 7,404 ft (2,257 m)) is the highest.[4] Both Pond Peak and Virginia Peak host several radio towers. Virginia Peak is also the site of a doppler radar station.
Interstate 80 follows the Truckee River basin to the south of the range. Nevada State Route 445 follows the Spanish Springs Valley to the west of the range, Nevada State Route 446 crosses through Mullen Pass to the north and Nevada State Route 447 follows the lakeshore and the Truckee Valley on the east side of the range.[5]
The
"Pah Rah" is a
Olinghouse mining district
The former community[6] and historic mining district[7] of Olinghouse is located in the southeastern foothills of the Pah Rah Range about 8 miles (13 km) WNW of Wadsworth, Nevada and 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Pond Peak.[8] The mines of the district produced gold from placer deposits and veins associated with granite porphyry dikes in a faulted basaltic to andesitic volcanic terrain of Oligocene to Miocene age.[9] Mining for gold as collector's specimens occurred during the late 1990s and early 2000s.[9]
The area had four names: White Horse, McLanesville, Ora and finally Olinghouse.[10] The district and the former town that served it were named for Elias Olinghouse, who settled there and ran a mule team transport service.[11][12]
The Olinghouse post office was in operation from October 1903 until July 1923.[13]
Fauna of Pah Rah Range
Wildlife of the range include
References
- ^ "Pah Rah Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ Wadsworth, NV, 15 min. topographic quad., USGS, 1957
- ^ Nixon, NV, 15 min. topographic quad., USGS, 1957
- ^ Spanish Springs Valley, NV, 15 min. topographic quad., USGS, 1957
- ^ Reno, Nevada–California, 30x60 minute topographic quad., USGS, 1980
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Olinghouse
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Olinghouse Mining District
- ^ Olinghouse, NV, 7.5 minute topographic quad., USGS, 1985
- ^ a b Kleine, Scott; Gold Issue, Rocks & Minerals Magazine, Jan-Feb 2004
- ^ Cerveri, Doris (May 1969). "Town with Four Names" (PDF). Desert Magazine. pp. 33–34. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
- ISBN 0-87417-094-X.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 71.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Olinghouse Post Office
- ^ DeLong, Jeff (January 16, 2015). "Bighorn wanders through Sparks". Reno Gazette-Journal. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
- ^ "Nevada - Plant and animal life". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
- ^ "Official Checklist of the Birds of Nevada". Great Basin Bird Observatory. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
- ^ "Pah Rah Virginia PMU Plan: Pah Rah-Virginia Population Management Unit Population Conservation Plan" (PDF). Nevada Department of Wildlife. Retrieved April 14, 2020.