Hamblin Bay
{{Short description|Bay in of Lake Mead, Clark County, Nevada}}
Hamblin Bay is a bay of Lake Mead on the Colorado River, to the east of Las Vegas and Callville Bay in the U.S. state of Nevada. It lies between Sandy Cove which lies to the west and Rotary Cove and Rufus Cove which lie to the east. Hamblin Bay is also a fault of the same name in the vicinity, which "strikes at a low angle to the easternmost mapped branch of the Las Vegas Shear Zone".{{cite book|title=Geological Survey Professional Paper|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=se0qAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA60|year=1974|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=3}}{{cite book|author=American Mining Congress|title=Proceedings of the First Annual William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium, October 1975, Sioux Falls, South Dakota|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ag_AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA259|year=1977|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=259}}
Name
It is named after Mormon missionary William Haynes Hamblin.{{cite book|last=Carlson|first=Helen S.|title=Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BixwbIM7ZvAC&pg=PA130|date=1 January 1974|publisher=University of Nevada Press|isbn=978-0-87417-094-8|page=130}}
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External links
- [https://www.panoramio.com/photo/94427892 Photograph]
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Category:Lakes of Clark County, Nevada
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