The Virginia Range is a mountain range nearly entirely in Storey County, Nevada, that is a portion of the drainage divide between the Truckee River (north) and the Carson River (south). Truckee Meadows and the Washoe Valley are to the west and the Lahontan Valley is east. Jeffrey Pine is the dominant species as the generally southwest-northeast range has unusual mostly acidic soils (most of Nevada is alkaline with Single-leaf Pinyon Pine and Utah Juniper).
For the this range's notable silver strike and the former mining village named Virginia City, see Comstock Lode and Virginia City Historic District (disambiguation).Famous quotes containing the word range:
“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”
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