Question: Papoose Lake lies within the iconic classified Area 51 within Edwards Air Force Base in which western U.S. state?

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Area 51: The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range.  According to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the correct names for the facility are Homey Airport (ICAO: KXTA) and Groom Lake, though the name "Area 51" was used in a CIA document from the Vietnam War.  The facility has also been referred to as "Dreamland" and "Paradise Ranch", among other nicknames.  The special use airspace around the field is referred to as Restricted Area 4808 North (R-4808N).

Double cantilever hangar: A Double cantilever hangar is a type of hangar that was constructed by the United States Air Force during the Cold War.  Large hangers were constructed at Castle Air Force Base, Loring Air Force Base, Carswell Air Force Base, and Travis Air Force Base, while smaller hangars were constructed at March Air Force Base, Edwards Air Force Base, Hanscom Air Force Base, and Homestead Air Force Base.

Badin Lake: Badin Lake is one of a series of lakes created by the damming of the Yadkin-Pee Dee River in the Uwharrie Lakes Region of the United States.  The Badin Lake Dam was built in 1917 to support a local aluminum smelting plant (Alcoa), and the associated community of Badin was named for the founder, Adrien Badin.  The power generation unit was sold to Cube Hydro Carolinas in February 2017.  Badin Lake is in the Piedmont area of North Carolina.  It is contained by Narrows Dam at the town of Badin, North Carolina.  Sitting within a valley, the lake is very deep, with a maximum depth of 190 ft (58 m).  The lake occupies 5350 acre and has 115 mi (185 km) of shoreline.  Its waters have an average summer temperature of 84.4 °F (29.1 °C) and an average winter temperature of 50.6 °F (10.3 °C).  No ferries cross Badin Lake.  The northernmost point of Morrow Mountain State Park is roughly 2 mi downstream from Narrows Dam.  The lake lies within Stanly, Davidson, Montgomery, and Rowan counties.  Much of the lake's eastern shoreline lies within the Uwharrie National Forest.

Quesnel Highland: The Quesnel Highland is a geographic area in the Central Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.  As defined by BC government geographer in "Landforms of British Columbia", an account and analysis of British Columbia geography that is often cited as authoritative, the Highland is a complex of upland hill and plateau areas forming and defined as being the buffer between the Cariboo Plateau and the Cariboo Mountains, as a sort of highland foothills along the eastern edge of the Interior Plateau running southeast from a certain point southeast of the city of Prince George to the Mahood Lake area at the southeast corner of the Cariboo.  Beyond Mahood Lake lies another separately classified area dubbed by Holland the Shuswap Highland which spans similar terrain across the North Thompson and Shuswap Lake-Adams River drainage basins, forming a similar upland-area buffer between the Thompson Plateau and the Monashee Mountains.  A third area, the Okanagan Highland, extends from the southern end of the Shuswap Highland in the area of Vernon and Enderby in the northern Okanagan region into Washington State, and also abuts the Monashee Mountains .

List of U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni: The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (TPS) graduated the following notable alumni who made significant contributions to the aerospace field.  The school's mission is to produce experimental test pilots, flight test engineers, and flight test navigators to lead and conduct test and evaluation of aerospace weapon systems.  The school was established on September 9, 1944 as the Flight Test Training Unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB) in Dayton, Ohio.  To take advantage of the uncongested skies and superb flying weather, the school was moved on February 4, 1951 to its present location at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of Southern California.  Edwards AFB is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and has been an integral part of flight testing for over fifty years.

Bakalar Air Force Base: Bakalar Air Force Base is a former U.S. Air Force base located 4.4 mi northeast of Columbus, Indiana.  During World War II, the base was known as Atterbury Air Field and Atterbury Army Air Base (named in memory of Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury), but it was renamed Bakalar Air Force Base in 1954 in honor of First Lieutenant John Edmond Bakalar, USAAF.  Established in 1942, the airfield served as a training base for medium-range C-46 Commando and C-47 Skytrain troop carrier planes and glider pilots.  It also was used for training B-25 Mitchell and B-26 Marauder bomber crews.  Reactivated during the Cold War, it was used as an Air Force Reserve training base for troop carrier, tactical airlift, and special operations flying units.  The military base was closed in 1970.  The present-day facility operates as the Columbus, Indiana, municipal airport.

Halfpint Range: The Halfpint Range is a low arcuate mountain range in eastern Nye County and extending into southwest Lincoln County, Nevada.  The western portion of the range lies within the Nevada Test Site.  Yucca Flat and Plutonium Valley lie to west and Frenchman Flat to the south.  The Buried Hills, the Papoose Range and Papoose Lake lie to the east.  French Peak (5280 ft ) is at the south end and Banded Mountain (5336 ft ) lies at the north end of the range.

U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School: The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (USAF TPS) is the Air Force's advanced flight training school that trains experimental test pilots, flight test engineers, and flight test navigators to carry out tests and evaluations of new aerospace weapon systems and also other aircraft of the U.S. Air Force.  This school was established on 9 September 1944 as the Flight Test Training Unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB) in Dayton, Ohio.  To take advantage of the uncongested skies, usually superb flying weather, and the lack of developed zones in the event of crashing, the test pilot school was officially moved to its present location at Edwards Air Force Base in the northwestern Mojave Desert of Southern California on 4 February 1951.

Osan Air Base: Osan Air Base (K-55; Korean: 오산공군기지 ; Hanja: 烏山空軍基地 ), is a United States Air Force base located near Songtan Station in the city of Pyeongtaek, South Korea, 64 km south of Seoul.  Despite its name, Osan AB is not within Osan City, which is 7.5 km to the north.  The base is the home of the Pacific Air Forces' 51st Fighter Wing, and a number of tenant units, including the headquarters for Seventh Air Force.  The base is also the headquarters of the ROK Air Force Operations Command.  Osan Air Base is also the departure and arrival point for U.S. government-contracted "Patriot Express" flights bringing service members and their family members to South Korea from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the U.S. state of Washington, Misawa Air Base and Yokota Air Base in Japan.

Papoose Lake: Papoose Lake is a dry lake bed located in Lincoln County, Nevada, USA.  The lake lies within the plot of land referred to as the Groom Lake facility (aka Area 51) and is a restricted area.  The lake is located a few miles southwest of the Groom lake facility nestled adjacent the Papoose Range.

Supporting paragraphs: Papoose Lake Area 51
Answer: Nevada