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Granite_Creek_(Black_Rock_Desert) Latitude and Longitude:
40°47′41″N 119°18′09″W / 40.79472°N 119.30250°W / 40.79472; -119.30250
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Granite Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Nevada. [1]

Granite Creek was so named on account of granite outcroppings near its course. [2]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Granite Creek (Black Rock Desert)
  2. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 63.

40°47′41″N 119°18′09″W / 40.79472°N 119.30250°W / 40.79472; -119.30250


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