| Quinn River Queen River | |
|---|---|
 The Quinn River basin extends into Oregon from Nevada. | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Nevada |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | W side of the Santa Rosa Range in NE Humboldt Co |
| • location | near Oregon state line |
| • coordinates | 41°58′26″N 117°34′8″W / 41.97389°N 117.56889°W |
| • elevation | 3,060 ft (930 m) |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 40°52′59″N 119°03′50″W / 40.88306°N 119.06389°W |
| Length | 110 mi (180 km) |
| Basin size | 6,720 sq mi (17,400 km2)[1] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Quinn River Sink, ~60 miles (97 km) northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada(evaporation) |
| • average | 0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | East Fork source: 41°51′03″N 117°27′58″W / 41.850723°N 117.466245°W confluence: 41°58′26″N 117°34′09″W / 41.973777°N 117.569305°W, South Fork source: 41°51′06″N 117°28′32″W / 41.851556°N 117.475689°W confluence: 41°58′25″N 117°34′08″W / 41.973499°N 117.569027°W |
| • right | Kings River |
The Quinn River, once known as the Queen River, is an intermittent river, approximately 110 miles (180 km) long, in the desert of northwestern Nevada in the United States. It drains an enclosed basin inside the larger Great Basin.
It rises in northeastern Humboldt County, on the west side of the Santa Rosa Range, just south of the Oregon state line. Its course flows southwest, through the main Nevada lands of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes and then south and southwest, receiving the Kings River flowing south from Kings River Valley. The Quinn River evaporates in a sink at the Black Rock Desert,[2] south of the Black Rock Range.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
USGSwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 38.