The Piute Wash of extreme southeastern Nevada and northeast San Bernardino County California is the south-flowing drainage of the Piute Valley . The wash and valley are located northwest of Needles, California .
9-595: The Piute Wash watershed and Piute Valley drain the eastern flank of the north-south Piute Range ; the main wash drains portions of the northwest Newberry Mountains . The wash hugs the eastern portion of the Piute Valley, and in the southeast of the valley, the wash skirts the west of the Dead Mountains , then traverses the southwest and south perimeter of the Dead Mountains, then descends steeply toward its outfall into
18-683: Is anchored by the water divide point. The northeast borders of the New York and smaller Castle Mountains meet the north of the Piute Range ; to the west of the Piute's, east of the New York Mountains is the southerly draining endorheic Lanfair Valley . The Piute Valley Watershed is the first major watershed southeast of Las Vegas to drain into the western side of the south-flowing Colorado River. Watersheds Eldorado Dry Lake Eldorado Dry Lake
27-633: Is located in the Mojave Desert , primarily in northeast San Bernardino County, California , United States , with a north portion in Nevada . Most of the range is the eastern border of the Mojave National Preserve , a National Park Service natural area and park. The mountains lie to the east of Lanfair Valley and southeast of the New York Mountains and Castle Mountains , and northeast of
36-603: The Colorado River in California adjacent Needles. I-40 also descends steeply in this stretch down to Needles. The Piute Valley and Wash are north–south trending as are the mountains bordering west and east; the wash's abrupt traverse east to its outfall is about an 8-mile (13 km) stretch. Southern portions of the wash receive some north flowing drainages from the north of the Sacramento Mountains . Also, west of
45-523: The Piute Mountains . They trend in a north-south direction, and form the western perimeter of the north-south Piute Valley which extends north past Cal-Nev-Ari to Searchlight . Fort Piute , one of a chain of military stations constructed to protect travellers on the Mojave Road from San Bernardino across the Mojave Desert to Fort Mojave on the Colorado River , lies at the southeastern end of
54-685: The Newberry and Dead Mountains drain into the Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed . To the north of the Piute Wash watershed and Searchlight is the north-flowing Eldorado Valley , an endorheic basin that forms a dry lake . Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada , is in the northern third of the valley. The elevation of Piute Wash outfall at the Colorado River, just north of Needles, is 488 feet (149 m). Watersheds Piute Range The Piute Range
63-538: The range near Piute Spring . The southern end of the extensive McCullough Range converges with four valleys and three mountain ranges at a water divide point. West of the McCullough's lie the endorheic Roach and Ivanpah Dry Lakes of Ivanpah Valley ; the valley extends north into Las Vegas' southwest, a tributary to the Las Vegas Wash . Ivanpah Valley turns southeast to meet the water divide point. Northeast of
72-468: The water divide point is the southwest Eldorado Valley , also endorheic with its Eldorado Dry Lake . Southwest, the Piute Valley drains south, then Piute Wash turns east and descends steeply at the Dead Mountains to its outfall at the Colorado River and Needles . The Mojave National Preserve is mostly endorheic with the west bordering on Baker, California and the twin dry lakes of Silver Dry Lake and Soda Dry Lake . The northeast preserve corner
81-587: The western perimeter Piute Range of Piute Valley, the Sacramento Wash (Clark County, Nevada) flows south, with the Fenner Valley in the northwest. The Sacramento Wash then turns east to join the Piute Wash. In the southwest a water divide separates the Ward Valley draining southwestwards into San Bernardino County. The Piute drainage is west of the Colorado River and Lake Mohave . A narrow drainage from
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