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The Smoke Creek Desert is southwest of the Black Rock Desert's South Playa and is between the Granite Range and the Fox Range. Naming history [ edit ] The original Smoke Creek Desert is shown on John Charles Frémont 's map of the area during his 1843-44 expedition as a lake west of "Mud Lake", which was an early name for the Black Rock Desert. [1]
Green is the current holder of the world land speed record, and the only person ever to break the sound barrier on land. On 25 September 1997 in ThrustSSC he beat the previous record in Black Rock Desert, US, reaching a speed of 714.144 miles per hour (1,149.303 km/h). On 15 October 1997, 50 years and 1 day after the sound barrier was broken in ...
Black Rock Desert Pershing County, Nevada, U.S. Attendance. 73,000. Website. burningman .org. Location of Burning Man 2023. Burning Man 2023 was a week-long gathering in the Black Rock Desert in Pershing County, Nevada. The 35th Burning Man event, it took place from August 27 to September 4, 2023. An estimated 73,000 people attended the festival.
1945–1963. Area. • Total. 0 sq mi (0 km 2) Lovelock Aerial Gunnery Range was a World War II facility in two Nevada areas used for "aerial gunnery, strafing, dive bombing [and] rocket fire". [1] By 21 November 1944, the Lovelock Range had been approved by the Secretary of the Navy to be developed for Naval Air Station Fallon, [1] and on 13 ...
Pahvant Butte, May 2015. Part of the Black Rock Desert volcanic field of the Pleistocene - Holocene age, Pahvant Butte formed above older pahoehoe and aa lavas of the Pahvant field. [6] The volcano was originally a subaqueous volcano formed under Lake Bonneville by a large eruption about 15,500 years ago.
Abandoned. 1959. Elevation. [1] 4,856 ft (1,480 m) GNIS feature ID. 1425709 [1] Black Rock is an unincorporated community and near- ghost town in the Beaver Bottoms in southern Millard County, Utah, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) north of Milford. [1] [2]
Pahvant Valley in Millard County has several ancient lava flows and extinct volcanoes, known as the Black Rock Desert volcanic field, including the "Black Rock" lava flow. About 17 miles (27 km) southwest of Delta, near Black Rock's northwest perimeter is a feature named the "Great Stone Face", which protrudes about four stories above the ...
These playas include the Black Rock Desert, the Carson Sink, and the Humboldt Sink. The only modern remnants existing as true lakes are Pyramid Lake and Walker Lake. Winnemucca Lake has been dry since the 1930s and Honey Lake periodically desiccates. The ancient shoreline is evidenced by tufa formations throughout the area.