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Las Vegas Boulevard is a major road in Clark County, Nevada, United States, best known for the Las Vegas Strip portion of the road and its casinos.Formerly carrying U.S. Route 91 (US 91), which had been the main highway between Los Angeles, California and Salt Lake City, Utah, it has been bypassed by Interstate 15 and serves mainly local traffic with some sections designated State Route 604.
The hospital opened in 1959 as North Las Vegas Hospital with 33 beds. It was later renamed Community Hospital and Lake Mead Hospital Medical Center and has undergone several expansions, including construction of the west tower and Women's Plaza complex in the mid 1990s. In 2014, its former owner IASIS Healthcare sold it to Prime Healthcare ...
In November 1997, Henderson, Nevada approved the first phase of Anthem by annexing 2,535 acres (1,026 ha) of vacant land into the city. Del Webb acquired the land through a property swap with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the annexation had been in the planning for two years prior to its approval.
Official Name Ethnicity Pop. Area (Acres) County(s) Notes Duck Valley Indian Reservation: Northern Paiute, Western Shoshone: 1,265 [1]: 288,000 Elko: Reservation extends into Owyhee County, Idaho.
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.
Delamar, Nevada, nicknamed The Widowmaker, is a ghost town in central eastern Nevada, USA along the east side of the Delamar Valley. [1] During its heyday, primarily between 1895 and 1900, it produced $13.5 million in gold.
Groom Lake is a dry lake, [1] also described as a salt flat, [2] in Nevada.It is used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport (KXTA). [3] Part of the Area 51 USAF installation, it lies at an elevation of 4,409 ft (1,344 m) [4] and is approximately 3.7 miles (6.0 km) from north to south and 3 miles (4.8 km) from east to west at its widest point, and is approximately 11.3 miles ...
In 1904, "Mom" Ronzone first started selling socks to Manhattan miners, the beginning of a retail career that would result in Ronzone's department stores in Tonopah, then Las Vegas. [ 5 ] Another boom in 1909 resulted in mining continuing into the late 1940s. [ 6 ]