U. S. Highway 93

Eastern Mojave Vegetation	U. S. Highway 93
	Tom Schweich

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United States, Montana below …

Junction: U. S. Interstate 90

Montana above …

Idaho below …

Challis

Other articles:
• Idaho Hwy 75: near Challis;

Junction: Idaho Highway 75

Other articles:
• US Hwy 26: in Shoshone;

Arco

Junction: US Highway 20, US Highway 26, east.

Carey

Other articles:
• U. S. Highway 20: 149998;

Junction: US Highway 20, west across the Camas Prairie.

Other articles:
• Idaho Hwy 75: in Shoshone;

Junction: Idaho Highway 75

Shoshone

Junction: US Highway 26, west.

Other articles:
• US I-84: at Exit 173;

Junction: U. S. Interstate 84.

Cross the Snake River on Perrine Memorial Bridge.

Other articles:
• US Hwy 30: at US 93;

Junction: US Highway 30, east into downtown Twin Falls, or west to Hagerman and the fossil beds.

Idaho above …

Nevada below …

Jackpot

Jackpot is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Elko County, Nevada, United States. The population was 855 as of the 2020 census. Located less than one mile (1.6 km) from the Idaho border on US 93, Jackpot has been a popular casino gaming destination for residents of Idaho and other neighboring states since its founding.

The former Union Pacific Wells Branch passed just to the east of Jackpot.

Other articles:
• Interstate 80: Wells;

Locations: Wells.

Wells

Junction: U. S. Interstate 80.

Other articles:
• Nevada Highway 229: 90000;

Junction: Nevada Highway 229.

Literature Cited:
- Denniston, Rhawn F., Yemane Asmerom, Victor Polyak, Jeffrey A. Dorale, Scott J. Carperter, Chalres Trodick, Brian Hoye, and Luis A. Gonzalez, 2007.

Locations: Goshute Cave.

Junction: US Highway 93, north to Wendover, Nevada, on US Interstate 80, at the Utah border.

Goshute Cave is about 8 miles to the west, across Steptoe Valley, and on the east side of the Cherry Creek Mountains.

Locations: Butte Valley.

Junction: Cherry Creek Road, former Nevada State Route 489, crosses Steptoe Valley, crosses Cherry Creek Summit, and enters Butte Valley.

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 486: at US Hwy 93 N;

Junction: Nevada State Route 486, east to Duck Creek Valley, and then south.

Other articles:
• Frasera albomarginata: near Steptoe;

Locations: Steptoe.

Steptoe is to the east-southeast, behind the copper smelter, on the slopes below the Duck Creek Range.

There are several collections of Frasera albomarginata from Steptoe.

Locations: McGill.

McGill

Mill and smelter.

Other articles:
• Frasera albomarginata: in vicinity of Ely;

Locations: Ely.

Ely

Other articles:
• U. S. Highway 50: at US Hwy 6 W;

Junction: U. S. Highway 50.

Other articles:
• U. S. Highway 6: in Ely;

Junction: U. S. Highway 6.

US Hwy 93 follows the route of US Hwy 50 and US Hwy 6 for 27 miles east of Ely.

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 486: at US Hwy 50;

Junction: Nevada State Route 486, east to Cave Valley Lake and then north.

Other articles:
• U. S. Highway 50: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: U. S. Highway 50, East. (Use U. S. Highway 50 for access to U. S. Highway 6.)

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 894: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Nevada State Route 894, "Shoshone Road", across Spring Valley to the west flank of the Snake Range, and then south to Shoshone and Minerva.

Other articles:
• Field Notes: 20080610040;

Locations: North Spring Point.
Wheeler Peak in the Snake Range across Spring Valley, Nevada

North Spring Point

Other articles:
• Field Notes: 10-Jun-08 at North Spring Point;
Looking south in Spring Valley from North Spring Point, Nevada

Other articles:
• Frasera albomarginata: at Bristol Pass;

Locations: Bristol Pass.

Bristol Pass to the west.

Other articles:
• Bristol Mine Road: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Bristol Mine Road

Bristol Mine Road goes west through Bristol Pass, turns south past Bristol Wells, and then returns east to Bristol and the Bristol Silver Mines on the west side of the Bristol Range.

Other articles:
• Field Notes: 20090605050;

Locations: Jackrabbit.
Historical Marker for Jackrabbit.

Junction: Road to Jackrabbit and Bristol Pass

Jackrabbit

Local legend attributes the discovery to the locator picking up a rock to throw at a jackrabbit and finding himself holding high grade silver. The Jackrabbit district, named for the mine, was located in 1876 by Isaac Newton Garrison. Early mine production of the camp, at one time named Royal City, was about ten tons per day, carrying native silver in flakes. Yielding about $40 per ton -- sometimes as high as $2,000 per ton. Mineral production declined during the 1880's, but when a fifteen-mile narrow gauge railroad was opened in 1891 between the Jackrabbit mine and Pioche, mining soon increased. After 1893, the mines fell silent except for several short periods of activity in 1906-1907 and 1912-1914.

Nevada Historical Marker No. 204

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 320: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Nevada State Route 320, west and south through Caselton.

Other articles:
• Frasera albomarginata: at Atlanta;

Locations: Atlanta.

Union Pacific Railroad Crossing. Station of Atlanta just to the west of the highway.

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 321: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Nevada State Route 321, business route through downtown Pioche.

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 322: at US Hwy 93;
• Frasera albomarginata: near Pioche;

Locations: Pioche.

Pioche

Junction: Nevada State Route 322, east to Spring Valley State Park.

County seat of Lincoln County, NV. Motels: (1) ..., (2) Hutchings Motel, P. O. Box 353, Pioche NV 89043 (702) 962-5404. The Lincoln County Record is published by: Pioche Record Publishing Co, Inc., PO Box 507, Pioche NV 89043.

"... a recently chained area [is] available for woodcutters; Reed Cabin Summit chaining is near Eagle Valley State Park and is reasonably accessible" (Lincoln County Record, 126(3), Oct 5, 1995). This was a surprise to me, I thought the BLM had stopped chaining …

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 321: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Nevada State Route 321, business route through downtown Pioche.

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 320: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Nevada State Route 320, north through Caselton.

Other articles:
• Field Notes: 20090605040;
Cathedral Gorge, looking south.

Cathedral Gorge State Park, Miller Point Overlook.

Locations: Cathedral Gorge State Park.

Cathedral Gorge State Park

Other articles:
• Frasera albomarginata: near Panaca;

Locations: Panaca.

Panaca

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 319: at USHwy93;

Junction: Nevada Highway 319, east to Utah.

Literature Cited:
- Nevada, Division of Water Resources, 2009.
- Lincoln County Planning Department, 2007.

Locations: Panaca Valley.

The valley in which Panaca lies is called Panaca Valley by the state of Nevada, and Meadow Valley by federal agencies.

Other articles:
• Beaver Dam Road: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Beaver Dam Road, 31 miles to Beaver Dam State Park. The road crosses the Union Pacific tracks at Acoma, a former populated place with a post office. A collection of Frasera albomarginata was made near Acoma.

Literature Cited:
- Nevada, Division of Water Resources, 2009.
- Lincoln County Planning Department, 2007.

Locations: Meadow Valley.

Indian Cove, enter Meadow Valley (Panaca Valley) from the south.

Other articles:
• Field Notes: 20090604060;

Locations: Caliente.

Caliente

Motels and restaurants. Caliente seems more like a center of commerce for Lincoln County than does Pioche or Panaca.

Union Pacific Depot in Caliente, Nevada

Union Pacific Depot

Literature Cited:
- Trimble, Stephen, 1989.

Locations: Oak Springs Summit.

Oak Springs Summit, Delamar Mountains

"On the west slope of Hancock Summit (sic), in the Delamar Mountains near Caliente, Joshua trees grow among the sagebrush and juniper well beyond the northern limit of creosote bush, co-indicator (with Joshuas) of the Mojave Desert. Here grows a disorienting mix of plants: juniper, Joshua tree, sagebrush, green rabbitbush, Palmer's penstemon, white prickly-poppy. (Trimble, 1989)"

Hancock Summit is, of course, in the pass between the Pahranagat Range and the Mount Irish Range, on Nevada State Route 375, and is about 40 miles to the west of Oak Springs Summit.

Other articles:
• Field Notes: 20090604050;
No Frasera albomarginata here.

Dry Lake Valley

On a mid-October morning we encountered four (4) Golden Eagles sitting on fence posts as we crossed Dry Lake Valley, west of the Delamar Mountains.

Pahroc Range

Other articles:
• Nevada Highway 318: at US Hwy 93;
• Nevada Highway 375: 22000;

Junction:

Nevada Highway 318, north through the White River Valley through Lund to US Highway 6.
Nevada State Route 375, northwest through Rachel to US Highway 6 at Warm Springs.

Ash Springs

Taylor, F. R., L. A. Gillman, and J. W. Pedretti. 1989. (Dep Biol. Sci., Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154.); "Impact of cattle on two isolated fish populations in Pahranagat Valley, Nevada [USA]." Great Basin Naturalist. 1989 49(4):491-495.

Other articles:
• Frasera albomarginata: in Pahranagat Range;

Locations: Pahranagat Range.

Pahranagat Range with Badger Mountain (elevation 7976 ft.) to the west.

Canyon Road, about 2 miles north of Alamo, may give access to the Pahranagat Range.

Locations: Alamo.

Alamo

"On September 12, 1995, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in the Federal Register the availability of the Public/Agency Review Draft of the Recovery Plan for the Aquatic and Riparian Species of the Pahranagat Valley" (Lincoln County Record, 126(3), Oct 5 1995). So there must be an issue of native fish and water usage along the White River in the Pahranagat Valley.

Locations: Upper Pahranagat Lake.
Upper Pahranagat Lake

Upper Pahranagat Lake

Other articles:
• Tikaboo Road: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Tikaboo Road, west over Medgser Pass into Badger Valley. Some maps show this road as one of several routes known as "Old Corn Creek Road."

Other articles:
• Field Notes: 20090604020;

Locations: Lower Pahranagat Lake.
Lower Pahranagat Lake

Other articles:
• Alamo Road: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Alamo Road or Old Corn Creek Road, passing south down the west side of the Sheep Range to US Highway 95 near Corn Creek.

Coyote Springs, home of the palm tree

Literature Cited:
- Rothberg, Daniel, 2018.

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 168: at US Hwy 93;

Coyote Springs

Junction: Nevada State Route 168

Sheep Range on the west side of Coyote Springs Valley

Sheep Range to west of highway.

Other articles:
• Mormon Well Road: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Mormon Well Road

Locations: Arrow Canyon Range.

Arrow Canyon Range to the east.

Other articles:
• Interstate 15: 34000;

Junction: U. S. Interstate 15

US Hwy 93 follows the route of US Interstate 15 for 21 miles. Please refer to the I-15 road log for details between the two junctions.

Las Vegas

Other articles:
• U. S. Highway 95: Las Vegas;
• Interstate 15: 36000;
• U. S. Interstate 515: 11000;

Junction:

U. S. Interstate 15, Northeast to Utah, Southwest to California.
U. S. Interstate 515, southeast through Las Vegas to Henderson.
U. S. Highway 95, north to Beatty, Tonopah, and other western Nevada garden spots.

U. S. Highway 93 is coindicent with U. S. Interstate 515 from the junction with Interstate 15 in the center of Las Vegas through Henderson, Nevada.

Other articles:
• U. S. Highway 95: 52000;
• U. S. Interstate 515: 14000;

Junction: U. S. Interstate 515, freeway to the center of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Other articles:
• Nevada State Route 166: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Nevada State Route 166, north to Boulder Beach.

Other articles:
• FAQ: Highway 93 at Hoover Dam;

Locations: Hoover Dam.

Hoover Dam

Kingman

Junction: U. S. Interstate 40, west to Barstow.

Junction: U. S. Interstate 40, east to Flagstaff.

Other articles:
• Arizona Highway 89: at US Hwy 93;

Junction: Arizona Highway 89, north to Prescott, and then to US Interstate 40 near Ash Fork.

Wickenburg

Phoenix

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Date and time this article was prepared: 5/10/2024 11:11:13 AM