Bullfrog Hills

Bullfrog Hills
Bullfrog Hills at Rhyolite, Nevada
Highest point
PeakSawtooth Mountain
Elevation6,005 ft (1,830 m)
Geography
Bullfrog Hills is located in Nevada
Bullfrog Hills
Bullfrog Hills in Nevada[1]
CountryUnited States
StateNevada
DistrictNye County
SettlementsBeatty and Rhyolite
Range coordinates36°57′31.797″N 116°49′58.222″W / 36.95883250°N 116.83283944°W / 36.95883250; -116.83283944
Borders onPahute Mesa, Bare Mountains, Amargosa Desert, Sarcobatus Flat and Amargosa Valley
Topo mapUSGS Beatty

The Bullfrog Hills are a small mountain range of the Mojave Desert in southern Nye County, southwestern Nevada.[1] Bullfrog Hills was so named from a fancied resemblance of its ore to the color of a bullfrog.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Bullfrog Hills". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. December 12, 1980. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
  2. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 55.