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Ward Valley (California)
Valley of far eastern San Bernardino County, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ward Valley (California) is a lengthy, almost-true north-south-trending valley in far-eastern San Bernardino County, California.
Ward Valley (California) | |
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![]() Danby Dry Lake in south region of Ward Valley, from the Iron Mountain Pump Plant | |
Floor elevation | 709 ft (216 m)[1] |
Length | 55 mi (89 km) |
Width | 9 mi (14 km) |
Geography | |
Population centers | Milligan, CA; Mountain Springs Summit, California; Goffs, CA; Rice, CA |
Borders on | Old Woman Mountains-W Piute Mountains-W & NW Sacramento Wash (California)-N Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness-NE Sacramento Mountains (California)-ENE Stepladder Mountains-E Turtle Mountains (California)-E & SE Rice Valley & Arica Mountains-SSE Granite Mountains (California)-S & SSW Iron Mountains (California)-SW Cadiz Dunes Wilderness-SW & W |
Coordinates | 34°16′18″N 115°04′44″W[1] |
The south end of the valley expands slightly northwest-by-southeast, and contains Danby Dry Lake, a 13-mi (21 km) long dry lake, or playa. Mountain ranges surround the valley on all sides. The neighboring valleys eastward over the mountain ranges, Chemehuevi Valley, Vidal Valley, and Rice Valley, are all western tributary valleys to the south-flowing Colorado River along the Lower Colorado River Valley corridor.
The center of the valley is approximately just east of the Oro Plata Mine[2] at the east of the Old Woman Mountains. The Iron Mountains with the Iron Mountain Pump Plant of the Colorado River Aqueduct lie on the southwest margin of the valley.[3]