The Santa Rosa Range is a mountain range in Humboldt County , Nevada , United States . Most of the range is included within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest . The highest peaks in the range are Granite Peak (9732 feet, 2966 m) and Santa Rosa Peak (9701 feet, 2957 m). The range extends for approximately 75 miles (120 km) north from Winnemucca Mountain near Winnemucca through eastern Humboldt County to the border with Oregon . The upper elevations of the southern section of the range are protected as the Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness Area .
7-616: The eastern side of the range is a ranching district around Paradise Valley , drained by the Little Humboldt River , a tributary of the Humboldt. The Quinn River Valley is west of the range. The Owyhee Desert on the edge of the Columbia Plateau extends northeast from the north end of the range. The range was so named on account of wild roses which grow in the area. This Humboldt County , Nevada state location article
14-415: A multi-format resource collection documenting the history and culture of the area's ranching community. A team of fieldworkers from AFC documented the distinct ethnic groups in the area ( Apache , Anglo , Basque , Chinese , German , Italian and Northern Paiute ); the history of the region, including archaeological remains of a Chinese community, foodways, and oral traditions . The resulting material
21-584: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Paradise Valley, Nevada Paradise Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Humboldt County , Nevada , United States, near the Santa Rosa Ranger District of Humboldt National Forest . It is located at the northern terminus of Nevada State Route 290 , about 19 miles (31 km) northeast of U.S. Highway 95 and a total of 40 miles (64 km) north of Winnemucca . The town
28-587: Is located in a broad valley, with the Santa Rosa Range of mountains just to the northwest. At the 2010 census , the population of the CDP was 109. A post office has been in operation at Paradise Valley since 1871. According to tradition, in the 1860s a prospector declared "What a paradise!" upon seeing the valley, after having traveled through the surrounding arid territory. As of the census of 2010, there were 109 people, 51 households, and 35 families residing in
35-492: The CDP. There were 92 housing units. The racial makeup of the CDP was 89.0% White , 1.8% Native American , 6.4% some other race , and 2.8% from two or more races. 18.3% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The American Folklife Center of the U.S. Library of Congress conducted extensive ethnographic field research in Paradise Valley from 1978 to 1982. The Paradise Valley Folklife Project generated
42-836: Was initiated by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution in 1978. Humboldt County School District serves the community. The sole school in Paradise Valley is the Paradise Valley School, which serves Kindergarten through eighth grade . Paradise Valley School had 27 students in the 1963-1964 school year. Trapper and self-styled mountain man Claude Dallas eluded capture for 15 months after killing two Idaho Fish & Game wardens in Idaho, near Paradise Valley, in 1981. After conviction, he escaped from prison in 1986 and after almost
49-626: Was subsequently packaged by the Library of Congress into a collection titled "Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982" . The collection includes 32 boxes of archival material including manuscripts, audio and video recordings, and several thousand photographic prints and negatives from the AFC project and additional historical archives dating back to 1870. The project
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