Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (Geographic Keyword)
501-525 (607 Records)
The 98th Range Wing and Environmental Management Flight often accumulate data for projects that without creation of an exchange vehicle is not shared. Discussions with Range Wing determined a combination of efforts would present parameters of acreage previously inventoried and released through consultation that could be used to make future planning more efficient. The NAFB archaeologists routinely inventory areas larger than requested. This acreage could be superimposed on Range maps with the...
NTTR Historic Plane Crash Photos (2009)
A collection of plane crash photos.
NTTR Production Totals (2020)
Production total for historic mines within the NTTR.
Nye County Land Lease (1952)
Land Lease between County of Nye and United States of America.
Nye General Area (2020)
IMACS Site Forms in Nye County for Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
Old Lakes and Young Playas: The Nellis AFB Geologic Study and Quaternary History of Four Playas on the Nevada Test and Training Range (2006)
Four playa basins in the northern part of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR))—Mud Lake, Kawich Lake, Gold Flat, and Stonewall Flat, contain modern dry lake playas. Three of these playas are rimmed by shoreline deposits that developed during wetter climatic conditions of the past, and the fourth playa contains fossils typically associated with wetlands environments. Because it is known that native peoples inhabited the Great Basin during some of the past wetter climate cycles, defining...
Opportunistic Hunting Patterns Among Late Archaic Aborigines: In the Vicinity of Indian Springs, Nevada (1996)
Ethnographic summaries indicate that Great Basin hunter-gatherers conducted a variety of resource strategies to perpetuate their physical lives and cultural lifeways. Due to the paucity of lush spring and meadow sites, it is likely that opportunistic hunting and gathering actions were common in the southern Great Basin. Steward (1938:181-82) notes that southern Nevada Paiutes likely used the resources of the Indian Springs vicinity for travel and resource procurement. He also stated (Steward...
An Overview of Cultural Resources on Pahute and Rainier Mesas on the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (1986)
Since the early 1960's, Pahute and Rainier mesas, situated in the northwestern portion of the Nevada Test Site, southern Nye County, Nevada (Figure 1), have been used by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for nuclear weapons testing. In accordance with the Limited Test Ban Treaty signed in August, 1963, this testing has been restricted to underground. Nevertheless, construction activities which accompany underground nuclear tests have resulted in the disturbance of the surface terrain around...
Paleontology and Fossils on the Nellis Air Force Base Military Training Lands (2013)
A systematic analysis of the dry lake systems on the Nevada Test and Training Range, managed by Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada was completed in 2010 by Robert Dickerson. Nellis Air Force Base invited Dickerson to conduct an analysis of fossil types. The library and field survey methods and the results of the investigation are described in this document. The kinds of fossils in the formations on the Nevada Test and Training Range are associated with a deep variety of invertebrate fossils. The...
Peak 4400 (Mormon Mountains) ACMI Site (1985)
Land Case N-42721 Peak 4400 (Mormon Mountains) ACMI Communications Site-USAF/Construction of a 15' x 15' solar powered communications tower (leveling and trenching) and 110' x 120' helicopter landing zone (brush-clearing only).
Phase I Cultural Resource Inventory for Proposed Cedar Peak Wildland Fire Management Project, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada Test And Training Range, Nye County, Nevada (2013)
The United States Air Force, 99th Civil Engineering Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB), Nevada is proposing fuels reduction for Cedar Peak located on the north range of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). The protection of Cedar Peak from the effects of a wildland fire will require the clear cutting of the pinyon and juniper trees within an approximate 300-foot radius around the peak (approximately 30 acres), and an additional 900-foot radius around the clear cut area (approximately...
Phase II Cultural Resources Inventory of 7,000 Acres at Lower Thirsty Canyon and Rocket Wash, Nevada Test and Training Range, Nye County, Nevada (2016)
This report documents the results of a Phase II cultural resources inventory of 7,000 acres on Range 77 (EC South), Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB), Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Nye County, Nevada. Surveyed acreage encompasses two adjacent drainage corridors, lower Thirsty Canyon and lower Rocket Wash, both of which had been selected for the establishment of targets to be used in live-fire air-to-ground combat training. The NAFB/NTTR proposes to establish seven target zones in Thirsty...
Photographs of Arrowhead Mining (2020)
Photographs of Arrowhead Mining.
A Pictorial History of Nellis Air Force Base 1941-1996 (1997)
Nellis history is complex and varied, and has been documented since its beginnings. The vast majority of the data, information, and pictures of this book are drawn from its official Army Air Corps and US Air Force histories written since 1941. Some of the photographs were donated by buffs who supported Nellis History. Unfortunately, we cannot thank all of them, since many pictures were donated anonymously. Where we know the donor, we have acknowledged them in the caption. Our heartfelt thanks go...
Pillar Springs Photos (2020)
Pillar Springs Photos
A Pilot Study of Holocene Tephrochronology and Spring Paleoecology in the Kawich Range, Nevada Test and Training Range, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (2007)
Seven springs in the northern Kawich Range were investigated to determine whether Holocene volcanic ash layers exist in alluvial deposits within the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). Although no discrete ash layers were visible in the exposures studied, microtephra analysis of sediment samples collected at Rose Spring and Cedar Spring revealed the presence of varying concentrations of ash shards. Radiocarbon dating and stratigraphic relationships suggest that both Mono-Inyo Craters and...
Pintwater Petroglyphs Photos (2020)
Pintwater Petroglyphs Photos.
A Plan for Inventory of the Silver Flag Alpha Training Complex, Range 63c, Nevada Test and Training Range (2007)
This document is a plan for inventory and evaluation of cultural resources for an Area of Potential Effect (APE) for 2,500 acres, called the Project Area, plus 14.5 miles of the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad (LV&T) alignment.
Playa Site Forms Combined (2009)
Arch Playa Site forms.
Prehistoric Archaeology of the West Sinter Quarry Cortez Mountains, Nevada (1988)
This report documents the methods and results of archaeological investigations conducted by the Desert Research Institute Social Sciences Center i n the Buckhorn Mining District of the Cortez Mountains, Nevada. The investigations were conducted for Cominco American to mitigate the adverse impacts to significant cultural resources resulting from expansion of the Buckhorn Mine onto land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Mitigation efforts included avoidance of impacts by project...
A Prehistoric Context for Southern Nevada (2012)
The document was developed to assist land managers and cultural resource custodians in evaluating the significance of prehistoric archaeological sites under the requirement of the National Historic Preservation Act and other federal laws and regulations. In the intervening 30 years, southern Nevada has been one of the nation’s fastest growing population centers. This explosive urban expansion has resulted in the recording of thousands of prehistoric sites and the excavation of hundreds of these.
Prehistoric Spatial Patterning and Subsistence Studies: Archaeological Investigations at Sample Unit U19arP4 (1992)
This report documents the methods and results of archaeological investigations at Sample Unit U19arP4 on Pahute Mesa at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Eight sites were located there: four lithic artifact scatters (26NY1370, 26NY1372, 26NY3666 and 26NY3667), two temporary camps (26NY3665 and 26NY5418), one artifact locality (26NY5419), and one quarry (26NY3664). One of the lithic scatters, 26NY3667, incorporated a previously recorded rock ring, 26NY1371 , that could not be relocated during...
Prehistory and Paleoenvironment at Pintwater Cave, Nevada: Results of Field Work During the 1996 Season (1997)
As part of Nellis Air Force Base and Range Complex (NAFR) Historic Preservation Program, the Air Force in 1996 conducted archaeological research in this cave. This research was designed to contribute significantly to the Air Force's ability to evaluate other historic properties on NAFR. In a research design approved by the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and Region 1 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Air Force...
Preliminary Engineering Study Auxiliary Landing Field Indian Springs, Nevada (1942)
Preliminary Engineering Study Auxiliary Landing Field Indian Springs, Nevada.
Preliminary Report on Castle Property (1920)
Preliminary mineral report on the Castle Property.