A Google Earth Find I Couldn't Pass Up!

Checking out a crazy satellite imagery find in the Las Vegas desert

Coordinates
35°57'10"N 115°14'29"W

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[Google]

Glad we could be a part of this find 🔎

[MySpaceKayakingGuy]

Old Water Storage Pumping House and down hill sloped trench for water pipelines to the Ready-mix Concrete Plant in Sloan. Removed whin on site well was put in Sloan. Was up and running when Las Vegas was under construction 1940s - 1960s.

[doskraut]

The old building was a water reservoir and the cut was for the pope to Sloan Limestone Quarry to the south and looks like around 1970-80.

[RemoteTrooper]

I feel like Joe Dirt when he got the boeing bomb appraised

[mrskweky]

Have you folks seen Tremors the movie 🍿?

[crazycaseyscustoms]

Hey man, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your channel. Your videos have the spirit of my childhood in them. I grew up in a small Northern California town when you could still explore like this, and later moved out to the Northern Nevada high desert where it is still VERY much like this; exploring the desert is my favorite part of living in Nevada, and your videos are an inspiration.

[LenLindsey]

if you look close enough, its a trench that leads back to American Eagle Ready-Mix Sloan Plant.

[dannyboy]

I agree with the water storage facility. The dirt/gravel looks like it was dug by hand.
Thank you for sharing. The road sure got nuts. Stay safe out there everyone 😊

[sergio_nomada]

looks like a pipeline for the "water tank" that you saw

[dawnr]

Great exploring in the desert. Cool finds!

[markellsworth]

That is where Superman's capsule came to rest

[jandraelune]

Not a crash site, that isn't how impact ejecta lays out, shallow impacts of this angle would just reflect off hard surfaces. The piles on the sides indicate it was dug out. The line is very straight at the start, but it does curve in smooth long curves as if made for a railway line which ends at ' Southern Nevada Paving '.
edit: Followed a line I found going east from that point, it is no longer followable once it hits ' W Cactus Ave ' almost 4miles away. Looks very much like a dig out for an old small railway.
On google Earth older images the line continues to an intersection of ' Blue Diamond Hwy ' and ' Hualapaui Way '

[bluepen]

Remains of Warehouse 13 after the TV show was terminated.

[david-evans]

People are saying it's a water flow but the hole is undercut into rock and just ends at a rock face 5:43 There are no tooling marks from man, it's too clean for TNT and water isn't doing that. I would say a prehistoric meteor strike.

[corm]

@15:10 The first thing that popped into my head when I saw that cactus or whatever type of desert plant that is was, ohh look it's the Statue of Liberty...lol

[donscheid]

Graboids for sure. That "Deviled Egg" rock looked like a thunder Egg split in half, thrown out by volcanoes, a rock shop could tell you and probably make an offer for it.

[herbieschwartz]

I have seen similar abandoned water systems made for railroads back when locomotives were steam powered.
The ditch may be the pipeline trench to/from the railroad siding at Sloan where there was a well that produced low quantities of water.

[JRose]

0:05 that gray area on the right is the Sloan limestone quarry. If you follow the trench from the structure you visited, it leads right to the quarry almost exactly 1 mile downhill

[goldcountryruss]

You will find a water tank and a stream bed created by water overflowing the tank & flowing downhill. Probably from an old mine. If you dug out the bottom of the tank you would find an inlet & outlet.

[karenharker]

We now live in Wisconsin, but we previously lived in Henderson, NV for 20 plus years. My husband worked for Las Vegas Paving, who does or did much of the Road work in the Vegas Valley. He said that this was more than likely and excavation/ test hole to find areas of which they could extract gravel to use in the Paving process. it was very common.