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Pancake Range

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lies in the Duckwater Valley portion of Railroad Valley to the east of the range. The unpaved former Nevada route 20/379 crosses the range between Duckwater and Eureka at Red Rock Summit in the southwest corner of White Pine County.
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between these two cities crosses the very north end of the range at Pancake Summit (elevation 6,521 feet (1,988 m)). Further south the community of
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counties. The range reaches an elevation of 9,240 feet (2,820 m) at Portuguese Mountain. Neighboring ranges include the
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manages 99.9% of the 864 square mile (2,238 km) mountain area. Trees found in the range include:
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crosses the Pancake Range at Sandy Summit north of Lunar Crater between
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Pancake Range was so named on account of its relatively flat outline.
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Portuguese Mtn., Nev. 15 min topographic quadrangle, USGS, 1968
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lies to the west of the north end of the Pancake Range.
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to the southwest of the range. Nevada route 375, the
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Index

Location of the Pancake Range within Nevada
Nevada
United States
Nye
White Pine
White Pine
Grant
Quinn Canyon
Railroad Valley
Park
Hot Creek
Big Sandy Springs
Hot Creek
Newark Valley
Lunar Crater Volcanic Field
Reveille Range
Ely
Eureka
US route 50
Duckwater
Duckwater Indian Reservation
U.S. Route 6
Currant
Warm Springs
Extraterrestrial Highway
Bureau of Land Management
Utah Juniper
Single-leaf Pinyon
Rocky Mountain Juniper
pronghorn

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