Oasis Valley is a valley in the Amargosa Desert

Amargosa Desert

The Amargosa Desert is located in Nye County in western Nevada, United States, along the California–Nevada border. It is largely coincident with the geographic Amargosa Valley....

 near Beatty

Beatty, Nevada

Beatty is a census-designated place along the Amargosa River in Nye County in the U.S. state of Nevada. U.S. Route 95 runs through the CDP, which lies between Tonopah, about to the north, and Las Vegas, about to the southeast. State Route 374 connects Beatty to Death Valley National Park, about ...

 in Nye County

Nye County, Nevada

-National protected areas:* Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge* Death Valley National Park * Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest * Spring Mountains National Recreation Area -Demographics:...

, western 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...

. The valley is near the Amargosa Range

Amargosa Range

The Amargosa Range is a mountain range in Inyo County, California and Nye County, Nevada. The range runs along most of the eastern side of California's Death Valley, separating it from Nevada's Amargosa Desert...

, and the Amargosa River

Amargosa River

The Amargosa River is an intermittent waterway, long, in southern Nevada and eastern California in the United States. It drains a high desert region, the Amargosa Valley in the Amargosa Desert northwest of Las Vegas, into the Mojave Desert, and finally into Death Valley where it disappears into...

 flows through Oasis Valley to the Amargosa Valley

Amargosa Valley

The Amargosa Valley is a Nevada landform east of the Amargosa Range that is the eponym for the town of Amargosa Valley, Nevada. The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad ran through the valley from 1906 to 1940.-Solar thermal plant:...

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Natural history

Oasis Valley is a portion of the Upper Amargosa Watershed and includes geologic features of the Timber Mountain-Oasis Valley caldera

Caldera

A caldera is a cauldron-like volcanic feature usually formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption, such as the one at Yellowstone National Park in the US. They are sometimes confused with volcanic craters...

 complex of the Southwest Nevada volcanic field.

The Amargosa Toad

Amargosa Toad

The Amargosa toad is a species of toad in the Bufonidae family. It was previously considered a subspecies of the Western toad.-Distribution:...

 is endemic to the Oasis Valley section of the Amargosa River, with its threatened population being successfully increased by local citizen efforts.