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:
“[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
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