The Diamond Mountains are a north-south mountain range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

 in east-central Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

 northeast of Eureka

Eureka, Nevada

Eureka is an unincorporated township in and the county seat of Eureka County, Nevada, United States. Eureka is by far the largest community in Eureka County...

. The range is along the Newark Valley

Newark Valley (Nevada)

Newark Valley is one of the Central Nevada Desert Basins and an eponym for the Little Smoky-Newark Watershed....

 and is part of the drainage divide demarcating the Little Smoky-Newark Watershed.

The mountains cover an area of 293.4 square miles (759.9 km²), and reach an elevation of 10029 feet (3,056.8 m) feet at Diamond Peak, which dominates the central portion of the range. The mountain range lies between Newark Valley to the east and Diamond Valley

Diamond Valley

Diamond Valley is a basin located in central Nevada in the western United States, between the Sulphur Spring Range and the Diamond Mountains. The valley is located almost entirely within Eureka County, but the northern end crosses into Elko County. The valley is up to 12 miles wide and over 45...

 to the west.

The Bureau of Land Management

Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers America's public lands, totaling approximately , or one-eighth of the landmass of the country. The BLM also manages of subsurface mineral estate underlying federal, state and private...

 oversees 96% of the range (privately held land makes up the other 4%), and the fauna and flora are typical of elevated biomes of the Central Basin and Range ecoregion

Central Basin and Range ecoregion

The Central Basin and Range ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency with 26 different Level IV ecoregions...

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