page_title: Meadow Valley Wash
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Meadow Valley Wash / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and Western Pacific Railroad.
context_page_description: The Meadow Valley Wash is a southern Nevada stream draining the Meadow Watershed that is bordered on three sides by the Great Basin Divide. The wash's Lincoln County headpoint is in the Wilson Creek Range, and the wash includes two upper confluences. Panaca is along the upper wash, and downstream of Caliente is the wash's confluence with its east fork. Just prior to the junction with the Muddy River, the wash flows from Lincoln County into northeastern Clark County. It flows into the Muddy in the Moapa Valley just west of Glendale adjacent to Interstate 15 approximately 40 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
  In addition to the Wilson Creek Range, the watershed's drainage divide is in the Delamar Mountains and the Meadow Valley Range. The northern tip of the watershed is a triple watershed point with two Great Basin subregions, the Central Nevada Desert Basins and the Escalante-Sevier subregion.
context_section_description: William Andrews Clark's 1903–1910 railroad that linked Pioche and Panaca operated through the wash until washed out by flooding.
caption: 1914 railroad map showing Pioche. 
  (Expandable photo in WikiCommons)
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