Quinn River
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Infobox river The Quinn River, once known as the Queen River, is an intermittent river, approximately Template:Convert long, in the desert of northwestern Nevada in the United States. It drains an enclosed basin inside the larger Great Basin.
It rises in northeastern Humboldt County, on the west side of the Santa Rosa Range, just south of the Oregon state line. Its course flows southwest, through the main Nevada lands of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes and then south and southwest, receiving the Kings River flowing south from Kings River Valley. The Quinn River evaporates in a sink at the Black Rock Desert,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> south of the Black Rock Range.
Catchment
The Quinn River is the largest river in the region, starting in the Santa Rosa Range and ending in the Quinn River Sink on the playa south of the Black Rock Range. The watershed covers Template:Convert<ref name=USGS>Template:Citation</ref> including the Upper and Lower Quinn River, Smoke Creek Desert, Massacre Lake, and Thousand Creek<ref>Template:Cite gnis</ref>/Virgin Valley<ref>Template:Cite gnis</ref> watersheds of northwestern Nevada as well as small parts across the border of Oregon.
Quinn River Sink
The Quinn River Sink is the mouth of the Quinn River<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and is a geographic sink of around Template:Convert, where the Quinn River discharges and evaporates about Template:Convert south-southwest of Black Rock Hot Springs.<ref>Template:Cite map</ref>