Indian Springs Pass


Indian Springs Pass, is a mountain pass 40-mi (64 km)[1] northwest of Las Vegas in northwest Clark County, Nevada.

For the pass on U.S. Route 40 in Maryland at Maryland Route 56, see Indian Springs, Maryland. For the "Indian Springs Pass" in the southeastern United States, see Grovetown, Georgia.
Indian Springs Pass
Indian Springs Pass
Indian Springs Pass
in Nevada
Highest point
Coordinates36°34′23″N 115°40′31″W 
Geography
LocationIndian Springs, Clark County, Nevada, United States

The pass is in a region of converging landforms of various watersheds, valleys, and mountain ranges; specifically it lies on the north perimeter of the Ivanpah-Pahrump Watershed-(Pahrump Valley). The endorheic Indian Springs Valley[2] watershed lies due north, and the endorheic Three Lakes Valley is adjacent east.

Description of water divide regions

The following landforms converge at the Indian Springs Pass region:

1–(north)-Pahrump Valley-Spring Mountains, extends due south, (Pahrump Valley, of west watershed)
2–Spring Mountains-SE
3–Indian Springs Valley & Watershed, (endorheic)-N
4–south playas, south Three Lakes Valley (Nevada)-E & SE

The south playas of Three Lakes Valley, are on the northwest, up-basin perimeter of the Las Vegas Valley.

See also

References
  1. Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, c.2010, pp. 65, 70.
  2. Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, pp. 65, 70.
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