Smoke Creek

The "Smoke Creek Desert" is roughly the same elevation and consistency as the Black Rock Desert, but is largely undriveable. It is located west and south of Gerlach and extends almost to Pyramid Lake.

The railroad skirts the eastern edge of the playa, and the "Smoke Creek Road" skirts the western edge.

Springs

• http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/geothermal/site.php?sid=Smoke%20Creek%20Desert

• File:S5001015.jpg

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_Creek_Desert

• Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion, 1861 To 1867 The California Military Museum

• P.A. Glancy and F.E. Rush. "Water-resources appraisal of Smoke Creek–San Emidio Desert, Nevada and California." Water Resources Reconnaissance Series Report 44. 1968 (Cover includes image of the Smoke Creek Desert. Inside photo of the "deserted railroad town of Smoke Creek")

• Description of Buffalo Springs Salt Works on page 232 of Israel Cook Russell, "Sketch of the geological history of Lake Lahontan, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada," 1885

Geologic

See

Gravity, Magnetic, and Physical Property Data in the Smoke Creek Desert Area, Northwest Nevada

and

Geophysical Investigations of the Smoke Creek Desert and their Geologic Implications, Northwest Nevada and Northeast California

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