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Area 51 is located in the southern portion of Nevada, 83 miles (134 km) north-northwest of Las Vegas. The surrounding area is a popular tourist destination, including the small town of Rachel on the "Extraterrestrial Highway".
English: Map of federal lands in southern Nevada, including: Nellis Air Force Base; Area 51; Tonopah Test Range; Yucca Mountain; Mercury; Nevada Test Site; Nellis Air Force Range; Desert National Wildlife Range; Method of production. a topographic map was rendered using Demis' mapserver. This combines public domain datasets and renders an image.
Federal Lands in Southern Nevada [edit] A self drawn map showing a number of interesting government facilities and their extensive ranges in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The map was originally intended for Area 51, but it's also used in Nellis Air Force Base, Tonopah Test Range, Yucca Mountain, Mercury, Nevada, Nevada Test ...
The camp was first called Gold Circle, but when the post office was established in 1907, officials decided that Nevada had too many towns with "gold" in their names, and the town was renamed Midas. [3] Millers: Esmeralda: Miriam: Churchill: Non-agency station of the SPRR [9] Mountain City: Elko: 1870: Semi-abandoned town: Nevada City: Churchill ...
Groom Lake is a dry lake, [1] also described as a salt flat, [2] in Nevada.It is used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport (KXTA). [3] Part of the Area 51 USAF installation, it lies at an elevation of 4,409 ft (1,344 m) [4] and is approximately 3.7 miles (6.0 km) from north to south and 3 miles (4.8 km) from east to west at its widest point, and is approximately 11.3 miles ...
GNIS code 2511961. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The Nevada Test and Training Range ( NTTR) is one of two military training areas at the Nellis Air Force Base Complex in Nevada and used by the United States Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base. The NTTR land area includes a "simulated Integrated Air Defense System ...
A map that details the federal land in southern Nevada, showing the site The site was established as a 680-square-mile (1,800 km 2 ) area by President Harry S. Truman on December 18, 1950, within the Nellis Air Force Gunnery and Bombing Range .
List of Nevada area codes. This is a list of telephone area codes in the state of Nevada . 702: The southeastern tip of Nevada, including the Las Vegas metropolitan area. 725: An overlay area code for the 702 area code effective June 2014. 775: All of Nevada outside the southeastern corner, including Reno and Carson City. Under the original ...