Virginia Range
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The Virginia Range is a mountain range nearly entirely in Storey County, Nevada, that is a portion of the drainage divide between the Truckee River (north) and the Carson River (south).[1] Truckee Meadows and the Washoe Valley are to the west and the Lahontan Valley is east. Jeffrey Pine is the dominant species as the generally southwest-northeast range has unusual mostly acidic soils (most of Nevada is alkaline with Single-leaf Pinyon Pine and Utah Juniper).[citation needed]
For the this range's notable silver strike and the former mining village named Virginia City, see Comstock Lode and Virginia City Historic District (disambiguation).
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- ^ "Boundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units". USGS.gov. http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc_name.html. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
