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Naked City is the nickname for a neighborhood located in Las Vegas, Nevada, a sub-section of the Gateway District. The neighborhood is located at the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip , near the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue , bordered to the west by Tam Drive, and to the north by New York Avenue.
Overton is located on the former St. Thomas branch of Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad which runs along the Moapa Valley, from north to south. The construction of the branch started in 1911 from Moapa station, which lies on the main line between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. By March 1912, the construction was completed.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) was formed on July 1, 1973, by merging the Las Vegas Police Department with the Clark County Sheriff's Department. Metro serves the city limits of Las Vegas and the unincorporated areas and towns of Clark County.
The town's name is a syllabic abbreviation of California, Nevada and Arizona. Cal-Nev-Ari was created in the mid-1960s by Nancy and Everette "Slim" Kidwell, who acquired a 640-acre (260 ha; 1.00 sq mi) section of land from the U.S. government and commenced development of an airport-based community an hour by road from Las Vegas.
The Lakes is a 2-square-mile (5.2 km 2) planned community located within the city limits of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is located in the western part of the Las Vegas Valley near the Spring Mountains and Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The centerpiece of the community, and its namesake, is a large man-made lake, Lake Sahara.
Time zone: UTC-8 • Summer : UTC-7 (PDT) ZIP codes: 89178, 89139. ... It is a neighborhood within the southwest part of the Las Vegas Valley.
Spring Valley is an unincorporated town [2] and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States, located 2 miles (3 km) west of the Las Vegas Strip. The population was 215,597 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ]
Time zone: UTC−08:00 (PST) • Summer : UTC−07:00 (PDT) ZIP Codes: 89028–89029. Area code(s) 702 and 725: ... south of Las Vegas, in the far southern tip of Nevada.