# Piute Wash
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{{hatnote|For the valley, range, and mountains in the same region, see [Piute Valley](/source/Piute_Valley), [Piute Range](/source/Piute_Range), ([Piute Mountains](/source/Piute_Mountains)-southwest)}}
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| image = Dead Mountains wash 2.jpg
| image_caption = Outfall region of Piute Wash
(NW of Needles & [Colorado River](/source/Colorado_River))
(southeast [Dead Mountains](/source/Dead_Mountains))
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| pushpin_map_caption= Piute Wash (north, Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada)
in [Nevada](/source/Nevada) and [California](/source/California)
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| subdivision_name1 = [United States](/source/United_States)
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| subdivision_name2 = [Nevada](/source/Nevada), [California](/source/California)
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| subdivision_name3 = (southeast)-'''[Mojave Desert](/source/Mojave_Desert)'''
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| subdivision_name4 = [Searchlight, NV](/source/Searchlight%2C_Nevada)-N
[Needles, CA](/source/Needles%2C_California) & [Mohave Valley, AZ](/source/Mohave_Valley%2C_Arizona)-SE
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The '''Piute Wash''' of extreme southeastern [Nevada](/source/Nevada) and northeast [San Bernardino County](/source/San_Bernardino_County%2C_California) California is the south-flowing drainage of the [Piute Valley](/source/Piute_Valley). The wash and valley are located northwest of [Needles, California](/source/Needles%2C_California).
The Piute Wash watershed and Piute Valley drain the eastern flank of the north-south [Piute Range](/source/Piute_Range); the main wash drains portions of the northwest [Newberry Mountains](/source/Newberry_Mountains_(Nevada)). The wash hugs the eastern portion of the Piute Valley, and in the southeast of the valley, the wash skirts the west of the [Dead Mountains](/source/Dead_Mountains), then traverses the southwest and south perimeter of the Dead Mountains, then descends steeply toward its outfall into the [Colorado River](/source/Colorado_River) in [California](/source/California) adjacent Needles. [I-40](/source/Interstate_40_in_California) also descends steeply in this stretch down to Needles.
The Piute Valley and Wash are north–south trending as are the mountains bordering west and east; the wash's abrupt traverse east to its outfall is about an {{convert|8|mi|adj=on}} stretch.
==South Piute Valley==
Southern portions of the wash receive some north flowing drainages from the north of the [Sacramento Mountains](/source/Sacramento_Mountains_(California)). Also, west of the western perimeter [Piute Range](/source/Piute_Range) of Piute Valley, the Sacramento Wash (Clark County, Nevada) flows south, with the [Fenner Valley](/source/Fenner_Valley) in the northwest. The Sacramento Wash then turns east to join the Piute Wash. In the southwest a [water divide](/source/water_divide) separates the [Ward Valley](/source/Ward_Valley_(California)) draining southwestwards into San Bernardino County.
==Piute Wash watershed==
The Piute drainage is west of the [Colorado River](/source/Colorado_River) and [Lake Mohave](/source/Lake_Mohave). A narrow drainage from the Newberry and Dead Mountains drain into the ''Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed''.
To the north of the Piute Wash watershed and [Searchlight](/source/Searchlight%2C_Nevada) is the north-flowing [Eldorado Valley](/source/Eldorado_Valley), an [endorheic](/source/endorheic) basin that forms a [dry lake](/source/dry_lake).
[Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada](/source/Cal-Nev-Ari%2C_Nevada), is in the northern third of the valley.{{citation needed|date=August 2010}} The elevation of Piute Wash outfall at the Colorado River, just north of Needles, is {{convert|488|ft}}.[Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas, Needles, CA, elev. 488, pp. 32–33.]
==References==
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==External links==
Watersheds
*[https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/hows-my-waterway Piute Wash Watershed, Nevada to California]
*[https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/hows-my-waterway Las Vegas Wash Watershed]
Category:Piute Valley
Category:Washes of Nevada
Category:Washes of California
Category:Tributaries of the Lower Colorado River in California
Category:Rivers of Clark County, Nevada
Category:Watersheds of California
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