Bullfrog Hills
| Bullfrog Hills | |
|---|---|
| File:Bullfrog hills at rhyolite.jpg Bullfrog Hills at Rhyolite, Nevada | |
| Highest point | |
| Peak | Sawtooth Mountain |
| Elevation | 6,005 ft (1,830 m) |
| Geography | |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Nevada |
| District | Nye County |
| Settlements | Beatty and Rhyolite |
| Range coordinates | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Borders on | Pahute Mesa, Bare Mountains, Amargosa Desert, Sarcobatus Flat and Amargosa Valley |
| Topo map | USGS Beatty |
The Bullfrog Hills are a small mountain range of the Mojave Desert in southern Nye County, southwestern Nevada.[1] Bullfrog Hills was so named from a fancied resemblance of its ore to the color of a bullfrog.[2]
Geography
[edit | edit source]To the range's east are Beatty, the Amargosa River, US Route 95, and the Bare Mountains. The Amargosa Valley is on the southeast and on the south with Nevada State Route 374. To the southwest lies the Amargosa Range along the Nevada–California border. Death Valley National Park and the Grapevine Mountains are to the west. Pahute Mesa is to the north, beyond Sarcobatus Flat and US Route 95.[3][4]
The highpoint of the range is Sawtooth Mountain, at 6,005 feet (1,830 m) in elevation.[5]
The hill's southern flanks are part of the Amargosa Desert, a sub-ecoregion of the Mojave Desert and Great Basin Desert ecoregions.
Mining history
[edit | edit source]The historic Rhyolite mining district and town was in the Bullfrog Hills. The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad crossed the hills to its Rhyolite Station via the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad[broken anchor].
The Bullfrog mining district was located along the south margin of the hills. The original Bullfrog Mine is located on the south flank of Bullfrog Mountain to the west of Rhyolite, and now just inside the northeast corner of the Death Valley National Park.[3]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ a b Beatty, Nevada–California, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1986
- ^ Pahute Mesa, Nevada, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1979
- ^ Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, c. 2010, p. 64-65.
External links
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