Quinn River
{{short description|River in Nevada, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
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| name = Quinn River
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| name_other = Queen River
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| image_caption = The Quinn River basin extends into Oregon from Nevada.
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| subdivision_name1 = United States
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| subdivision_name2 = Nevada
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| length_mi = 110
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| discharge1_location= Quinn River Sink, ~{{convert|60|mi}} northwest of Winnemucca, Nevada(evaporation)
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| source1 = W side of the Santa Rosa Range in NE Humboldt Co
| source1_location = near Oregon state line
| source1_coordinates= {{coord|41|58|26|N|117|34|8|W|display=inline}}
| source1_elevation = {{convert|3060|ft|abbr=on}}
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| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|40|52|59|N|119|03|50|W|display=inline,title}}
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| basin_size_mi2 = 6720
| tributaries_left = East Fork
source: {{coord|41.850723|-117.466245|display=inline}}
confluence: {{coord|41.973777|-117.569305|display=inline}}, South Fork
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confluence: {{coord|41.973499|-117.569027|display=inline}}
| tributaries_right = Kings River
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The Quinn River, once known as the Queen River, is an intermittent river, approximately {{convert|110|mi}} 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,{{cite book | url=http://dwgateway.library.unr.edu/keck/histtopoNV/Origin_of_Place_Names_Files/1941NevadaOriginofNames-pt1.pdf | title=Origin of Place Names: Nevada | publisher=W.P.A. | author=Federal Writers' Project | year=1941 | pages=38}} south of the Black Rock Range.
Catchment
The Quinn River is the largest river in the region, starting in the Santa Rosa Range and ending in the Quinn River Sink on the playa south of the Black Rock Range. The watershed covers {{convert|11600|sqmi|abbr=on}}{{Citation | title = Boundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units | publisher = United States Geological Survey | date = April 2, 2007 | url = http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/huc_name.html | access-date = 2008-01-11 }} including the Upper and Lower Quinn River, Smoke Creek Desert, Massacre Lake, and Thousand Creek{{cite gnis|847513|Thousand Creek| access-date= 2008-01-13 }}/Virgin Valley{{cite gnis |847531| Virgin Valley | access-date=2008-01-13 }} watersheds of northwestern Nevada as well as small parts across the border of Oregon.
Quinn River Sink
The Quinn River Sink is the mouth of the Quinn River{{Cite web |title=General Information |url=http://blackrockdesert.org/friends/search/node/river%20sink |publisher=Friends of the Black Rock |access-date=2010-11-24}} and is a geographic sink of around {{convert|3|sqmi}}, where the Quinn River discharges and evaporates about {{convert|2.75|mi}} south-southwest of Black Rock Hot Springs.{{Cite map |title=Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails NCA |url=http://www.blm.gov/ca/surprise/highrock.html |publisher=BLM.gov |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012133921/http://www.blm.gov/ca/surprise/highrock.html |archive-date=2008-10-12 }}
See also
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Category:Rivers of Humboldt County, Nevada