Mineral County in west-central Nevada has been host to the Hawthorne Army Depot for decades. The county contains the community of Hawthorne, which is where the Depot is located, as well as a handful of smaller communities. The county's western boundary line also serves as the state border between California and Nevada. Hawthorne is the county seat and lies 130 miles southeast of the metropolitan area of RenoISparks, Nevada. It is approximately 3 10 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 07/15/2005 to all Commissioners from Cheri Emm-Smith, District Attorney Mineral County Hawthorne, Nevada expressing her support to keep Hawthorne Army Depot open.

This report was formed after the study of the Nevada Test Site to examine parts of the thick miogeosynclinical section of the Paleozoic rocks and post-Paleozoic structural features for the sole purpose of determining the walking stops for future field trips to the test site.