Winnemucca Lake

Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed in northwest that features the oldest known . Located astride the border between and counties, it was a shallow lake until the 1930s, but was dried when a dam and a road were built that combined to restrict and block water flow.
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Photo: Peter Kaminski, CC BY 2.0.
  • Lake
  • …lies at an elevation of 3,773 feet (1,150 metres)
  • Description: dry lake bed in Nevada with petroglyphs
  • Also known as
    “Mud Lake”
    “Winnamuck Lake”

Winnemucca Lake

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Latitude
40.12185° or 40° 7′ 19″ north
Longitude
-119.33962° or 119° 20′ 23″ west
Open location code
85G24MC6+P5
Geo­Names ID
5710367
Wiki­data ID
Q8025576

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Japanese—“Winnemucca Lake” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Winnemucca”
  • German: “Winnemucca Lake”
  • Japanese: “ウィネマッカ湖”

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