Bullfrog Hills
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| Bullfrog Hills | |
| Mountain Range | |
 Bullfrog Hills at Rhyolite, Nevada
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Nevada |
| District | Nye County |
| Borders on | Pahute Mesa-NE Bare Mountains-SE Amargosa Desert-S & SE Sarcobatus Flat-NW & N |
| Cities | Beatty, NV, Rhyolite, NV |
| River | Amargosa River-(east border) |
| Coordinates | 36°57′31.797″N 116°49′58.222″W / 36.9588325°N 116.83283944°W |
| Highest point | Sawtooth Mountain |
| - elevation | 6,005 ft (1,830 m) |
| Timezone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
| - summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| Topo map | USGS Beatty |
The Bullfrog Hills are a small range of mountains in southern Nye County, Nevada.[1] The historic Rhyolite, Nevada, mining district was in the Bullfrog Hills, and the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad crossed the hills to its Rhyolite station via the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad The Bullfrog, Nevada, mining district was south of the hills.
The highpoint of the range is Sawtooth Mountain, 6,005 feet (1,830 m).[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ a b "Bullfrog Hills". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. December 12, 1980. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:845388. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
- ^ Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, c. 2010, p. 64-65.
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