Looking northwest towards the Las Vegas Strip, stones placed as barriers line Epic View Court in Ascaya, a luxury home development carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada. The project's infrastructure was built completely with materials mined on site and all major improvements were installed prior to beginning sales.
'Base by U.S. Geological Survey, 1952.' 'Interior--Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.--1965--W63358.' 'Compiled from data published by Carpenter (1915), Kearney (1913), and McWilliams (1913).' Relief shown by contours. Includes township and range lines. Scale 1:62,500 (W 115°15´--W 115°00´/N 36°15´--N 36°00´). Series: Water-supply paper (Washington, D.C.)1780. Originally published as plate 7 of Available water supply of the Las Vegas ground-water basin, Nevada, by Glenn T. Malmberg, published by the Geological Survey in 1965 as its Water-supply paper 1780.
Color image of a rock formation created in the Nevada desert during a demonstration against nuclear testing organized by the Lenten Desert Experience (also called the Nevada Desert Experience).