Mountain Springs (Clark County)

Mountain Springs is a spring in the Spring Mountains in Clark County, Nevada. The spring lies at an elevation 5,528 feet / 1,685 meters, up a draw north of the town of Mountain Springs, Nevada.

John C. Fremont described the spring when his expedition encountered it while exploring what became the Fremont Cutoff on May 1, 1844:

William Chandless, an Englishman, traveling the Mormon Road on horseback from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles on Jan. 18th, 1856, rode up to Mountain Springs from Las Vegas Springs later described the route and the spring:

Chandless left the springs taking the Kingston Cutoff, a horse mail trail, that ran 40 waterless miles from Mountain Springs to Kingston Springs, and another 40 miles to Bitter Spring linking up again with the Mormon Road along Salt Creek in Silurian Valley.