Hamblin Bay is a bay of Lake Mead on the Colorado River, to the east of Las Vegas and Callville Bay in the U.S. state of Nevada. It lies between Sandy Cove which lies to the west and Rotary Cove and Rufus Cove which lie to the east. Hamblin Bay is also a fault of the same name in the vicinity, which "strikes at a low angle to the easternmost mapped branch of the Las Vegas Shear Zone".[1][2]

Name

It is named after Mormon missionary William Haynes Hamblin.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Geological Survey Professional Paper. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1974. p. 3.
  2. ↑ American Mining Congress (1977). Proceedings of the First Annual William T. Pecora Memorial Symposium, October 1975, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 259.
  3. ↑ Carlson, Helen S. (1 January 1974). Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. University of Nevada Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-87417-094-8.

36°8′26″N 114°39′13″W / 36.14056°N 114.65361°W / 36.14056; -114.65361


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