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Goshute Mountains

Coordinates: 40°16′9.758″N 114°16′33.052″W / 40.26937722°N 114.27584778°W / 40.26937722; -114.27584778
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Goshute Mountains
Goshute Mountains is located in Nevada
Goshute Mountains
Goshute Mountains
Location of Goshute Mountains in Nevada [1]
Goshute Mountains is located in the United States
Goshute Mountains
Goshute Mountains
Goshute Mountains (the United States)
Highest point
Elevation2,151 m (7,057 ft)
Geography
CountryUnited States
StateNevada
DistrictElko County
Range coordinates40°16′9.758″N 114°16′33.052″W / 40.26937722°N 114.27584778°W / 40.26937722; -114.27584778
Topo mapUSGS White Horse Mountain

The Goshute Mountains is a mountain range in southeastern Elko County, Nevada in the United States.[1] The range is separated from the Toano Range to the north by Morgan Pass.[2]

The range was named after the Goshute Indians.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Goshute Mountains". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
  2. ^ Keith B. Ketner; Warren C. Day; Maya Elrick; Myra K. Vaag; Robert A. Zimmermann; Lawrence W. Snee; Richard W. Saltus; John E. Repetski; Bruce R. Wardlaw; Michael E. Taylor; Anita G. Harris (1998). "U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1593 - An Outline of Tectonic, Igneous, and Metamorphic Events in the Goshute-Toano Range Between Silver Zone Pass and White Horse Pass, Elko County, Nevada: A History of Superposed Contractional and Extensional Deformation" (PDF). United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
  3. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 24.