Humboldt River
The Humboldt River is the longest river in the northern and central part of Nevada. It extends in a general east-to-west direction from its headwaters in northern Nevada's Jarbidge, Independence, and Ruby Mountains in Elko County to its terminus in the Humboldt Sink, approximately 225 miles away in northwest Churchill County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: G. Thomas, Public domain.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in northern Nevada, United States
- Also known as: “Barren River”, “Bishop Creek”, “Bishops Creek”, “Buenaventura River”, “East Fork Humboldt River”, “Fremonts Creek”, “Humbold River”, “Lower Bishop Creek”, “Marias River”, “Marys River”, “Ogdens River”, “Pauls River”, “Swampy River”, and “Unknown River”
Humboldt River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Churchill, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Humboldt River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر همبولت”
- Armenian: “Հումբոլդտ գետ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Humboldt”
- Bulgarian: “Хумболт”
- Bulgarian: “Хъмбоулт”
- Catalan: “Humboldt”
- Cebuano: “Humboldt River”
- Chinese: “洪堡河”
- Czech: “Humboldt”
- Danish: “Humboldt River”
- Dutch: “Humboldt River”
- Dutch: “Humboldt”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر هومبولدت”
- Esperanto: “Humboldt”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Humboldt”
- French: “Humboldt River”
- French: “Humboldt”
- Georgian: “ჰუმბოლდტი”
- German: “Humboldt River”
- German: “Humboldtfluss”
- Greek: “Χούμπολτ”
- Hebrew: “נהר הומבולדט”
- Irish: “Abhainn Humboldt”
- Italian: “Humboldt”
- Japanese: “ハンボルト川”
- Japanese: “フンボルト川”
- Lithuanian: “Humboltas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Humboldt River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Humboldt”
- Norwegian: “Humboldt”
- Polish: “Humboldt”
- Russian: “Гумбольдт”
- Serbian: “Хамболт”
- Slovenian: “Humboldt River”
- Slovenian: “Humboldt”
- Slovenian: “reka Humboldt”
- Spanish: “Rio Humboldt”
- Spanish: “Río Humboldt”
- Swedish: “Humboldt River”
- Turkish: “Humboldt Nehri”
- Urdu: “دریائے ہمبولٹ”
- Venetian: “Humboldt”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Humboldt”
- Welsh: “Afon Humboldt”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Humboldt State Wildlife Management Area and Humboldt Sink.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Humboldt River”. Photo: G. Thomas, Public domain.