Hualapai

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Hualapai located near Highway 34, about 20 miles Northwest of Gerlach.

Hualipi Post Office, Wards House, and Sam Kings House appear on the c. 1917 NV plat map for 1917 NV plat map for T35 R24.

1961 is the year the first mention of "Hualapai Valley" found in the newspapers.[1]

A 1962 geology paper mentions Hualapai Flat.[2]

1963 is the year the first mention of "Hualapai Flat" is found in the newspapers.[3]

The 1980 Hualapai Flat North, NV 1:24,000 map is the first USGS map that shows Hualapai Flat.</ref>

In 2020, water rights from the Hualapai basin were sold.[4]


History

References

  1. "Water Shortage Drastically Curtails Crop Planning, Beef Production Seen Unaffected," March 31, 1961, Reno Evening Gazette, p. 5.
  2. Ground-Water Resources of Hualapai Flat, Washoe, Pershing and Humboldt Counties, Nevada, October 1962, William C. Sinclair, Nevada Dept Conserv, Nat. Resources, Ground-Water Resources-Reconnaissance Ser. Rept. 11.
  3. "Ground Water Studied in Three Areas," February 24, 1963, Reno Evening Gazette, p. 7.
  4. "Months before a company lobbied the Legislature to create its own county, it purchased faraway water rights that could fuel future growth," Daniel Rothberg, February 12, 2021, The Nevada Independent