The north section of the valley is part of the southwest portion of Winnemucca on the Humboldt River.
Clear Creek flows down the valley center, north-northwesterly and joins the Humboldt at Rose Creek, Nevada, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Winnemucca.
[3] Grass Valley trends north-northwest and is nestled between two mountain ranges on the Humboldt River's south.
[5] The valley narrows north and south to about 4 miles (6.4 km), but widens at the floodplain of the Humboldt River.
The center of the valley[6] is approximately just southwest of Clear Creek Ranch at the west foothills of the Sonoma Range.