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{{Short description|Mountain range in Nevada}}
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{{Infobox mountain range
|photo=File:2022-03-24 19 40 47 UTC minus 7 View from an airplane looking north across north-central Nye County, Nevada, with the Monitor Range visible ahead, West Stone Cabin Valley below, Little Fish Lake Valley to the right and Monitor Valley to the left.jpg
|photo_caption=View of the Monitor Range from above, looking north
|map_image=NVMap-doton-MonitorMtns.png
|map_caption=Location of the Monitor Range within Nevada
|map_size=200
|range_coords={{Coord|38|50|N|116|35|W|type:mountain|display=inline,title}}
|highest=[[Table Mountain (Nye County, Nevada)|Table Mountain]]
|elevation_ft=10649
|area_mi2=1176
|location=south-central Nevada
}}

The '''Monitor Range''' is located in south-central [[Nevada]] in the [[United States]]. The range lies west and northwest of the [[Hot Creek Range]] and north of [[U.S. Route 6 (Nevada)|U.S. Route 6]] in [[Nye County]]. It extends into the southwest corner of [[Eureka County]] at its northern end ending just south of [[U.S. Route 50 in Nevada|U.S. Route 50]]. [[Tonopah, Nevada|Tonopah]] is about 15 miles west of the south end of the range and [[Eureka, Nevada|Eureka]] lies about {{convert|20|mi}} east of the north end of the range.<ref name=DeLorme>''Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer'', DeLorme, Eighth ed., 2012, pp. 46 and 54 {{ISBN|978-089933-334-2}}</ref> Its highest point is [[Table Mountain (Nye County, Nevada)|Table Mountain]] at {{convert|10649|ft|m}}.

The [[Table Mountain Wilderness|Table Mountain Wilderness Area]] lies in the central part of the Monitor Range. The mountains cover an area of {{convert|3,046|km2|sqmi|order=flip}}, and lies between the [[Antelope Valley (Eureka County)|Antelope Valley]] and the Monitor Valley at the northern end. At the southern end, the mountains lie between the [[Toquima Range]] and [[Stone Cabin Valley]].

As the map/graphic shows, its extreme linearity is because the range is an extensive linear [[horst (geology)|horst]] between [[graben]] (down-dropped) valleys to the east and west. The range lies amongst a series of range-valley-ranges, in south-central Nevada (mostly south of the [[Humboldt River]]). The pattern is the result of crustal extension as part of  the [[basin and range topography]] of western North America.

The Forest Service is in charge of 83.6% of the mountains and the [[Bureau of Land Management]] manages 16% of the range. Pinon-juniper makes up 39.3% of the area, with [[Sagebrush]] [[scrubland|scrub]] making up 24.8% of the mountains. [[Montane forest|Montane]] shrub accounts for 19.9%.

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[[Category:Mountain ranges of Nevada]]
[[Category:Mountain ranges of the Great Basin]]
[[Category:Mountain ranges of Nye County, Nevada]]
[[Category:Mountain ranges of Eureka County, Nevada]]
[[Category:Horsts (geology)]]