Portal:Nevada

The Nevada Portal Panorama of the Ruby Mountains from Lamoille Summit along Nevada State Route 227 (2013) The Flag of Nevada Nevada (/nəˈvædəˌ -vɑː-/ nə-VAD-ə, -⁠VAH-, Spanish: [neˈβaða]) is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, the 32nd-most populous, and the 9th-least densely populated of the U.S. states. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area, including three of the state's four largest incorporated cities. Nevada's capital is Carson City. Las Vegas is the largest city in the state. Nevada is officially known as the "Silver State" because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the "Battle Born State" because it achieved statehood during the Civil War (the words "Battle Born" also appear on its state flag); due to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, the Union benefited immensely from the support of newly awarded statehood by the infusion of the monetary support of nearly $400 million in silver ore generated at the time by the Comstock Lode. It is also known as the "Sagebrush State", for the native plant of the same name; and as the "Sage-hen State". The state's name means "snowy" in Spanish, referring to Nevada's small overlap with the Sierra Nevada mountain range; however, the rest of Nevada is largely desert and semi-arid, much of it within the Great Basin. Areas south of the Great Basin are within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada lie on the western edge. About 86% of the state's land is managed by various jurisdictions of the U.S. federal government, both civilian and military. American Indians of the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes inhabit what is now Nevada. The first Europeans to explore the region were Spanish. They called the region Nevada (snowy) because of the snow which covered the mountains in winter, similar to the Sierra Nevada in Spain. The area formed from mostly Alta California and part of Nuevo México's territory within the Viceroyalty of New Spain, which gained independence as Mexico in 1821. The United States annexed the area in 1848 after its victory in the Mexican–American War, and it was incorporated as part of the New Mexico and Utah Territory in 1850. The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a population boom that became an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861. Nevada became the 36th state on October 31, 1864, as the second of two states added to the Union during the Civil War (the first being West Virginia). (Full article...) Recognized content - Entries here consist of Good and Featured articles, which meet a core set of high editorial standards. The 2008 UAW-Dodge 400 was the third stock car race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It was held on March 2, 2008, before a crowd of 153,000 in Las Vegas, Nevada, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, an intermediate track that holds NASCAR races. The 267-lap race was won by Carl Edwards of the Roush Fenway Racing team, who started from second position. Hendrick Motorsports driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished second and Edwards's teammate Greg Biffle was third. Kyle Busch, the pre-race Drivers' Championship leader over Ryan Newman, won the pole position with the fastest overall lap time in the qualifying session. Busch led the first twenty laps until he was passed by Edwards. He held the lead until the first green-flag pit stops and regained the position after the stops ended. Busch retook the lead on lap 81 and held it until he was passed by Matt Kenseth. Jeff Gordon took over the lead on lap 163, before Earnhardt became the leader on the 181st lap and maintained this position until Edwards regained it 14 laps later. The race was stopped for 17 minutes when Gordon crashed on lap 262, and car parts were strewn into the path of other drivers, requiring officials to clean the track. Edwards maintained the lead at the restart and held it to win the race. There were 11 cautions and 19 lead changes by nine different drivers during the race. (Full article...) List of recognized articles List of cities in Nevada List of counties in Nevada List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas U.S. Route 50 in Nevada Rhyolite, Nevada Hoover Dam Interstate 80 Business (West Wendover, Nevada–Wendover, Utah) Trout Creek Mountains McCarran International Airport Caesars Palace Desert Inn Nevada State Route 375 Pat Nixon Nevada State Route 28 Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert Devils Hole pupfish Storm Area 51 2011 Kobalt Tools 400 2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championship Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito Las Vegas Lights FC Beatty, Nevada Interstate 80 in Nevada Cal Neva Lodge & Casino Barry Zito Bruno Mars at The Chelsea, Las Vegas Kris Bryant Brandon Kintzler Miranda Du Five Finger Death Punch Groom Mine I Am... Yours Landmark (hotel and casino) Vengeance (2005) 2017 Vegas eRace World Series of Darts Festival Lunar Crater volcanic field 2017 Las Vegas shooting Selected article - Gold mining in Nevada, a state of the United States, is a major industry, and one of the largest sources of gold in the world. In 2018 Nevada produced 5,581,160 troy ounces (173.6 tonnes), representing 78% of US gold and 5.0% of the world's production. Total gold production recorded from Nevada from 1835 to 2017 totals 205,931,000 troy ounces (6,405.2 t), worth US$322.6 billion at 2020 values. Much of Nevada's gold production comes from large open pit mining using heap leaching recovery. The Nevada mining industry supported an average 14,787 direct employees in 2018, with about 75,000 additional jobs related to providing goods and services needed by the mining industry. The average pay for mining industry employees during this time was $97,600 per year, the third highest average private employment sector in the state. 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List of selected articles History of Nevada Nevada Test Site Downtown Las Vegas Las Vegas Reno, Nevada Clark County, Nevada Henderson, Nevada Las Vegas Valley Sparks, Nevada LGBT rights in Nevada COVID-19 pandemic in Nevada Prostitution in Nevada Las Vegas Strip Bellagio (resort) Circus Circus Las Vegas Rat Pack Flamingo Las Vegas Casino (1995 film) Mount Rose (Nevada) Reno–Tahoe International Airport University of Nevada, Las Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium Area 51 Lake Mead National Recreation Area Mustang Ranch Nevada Wolf Pack football Laughlin, Nevada Elko, Nevada Table Mountain Wilderness List of governors of Nevada Nevada State Prison Carson City, Nevada High Roller (Stratosphere) Celine (2011 concert residency) Hidden Cave Mojave Desert Black Rock Desert Desert tortoise Great Basin Lake Tahoe Lake Lahontan Lake Mead Truckee River Rachel, Nevada Whiskey Pete's Cannabis in Nevada Carson River Fort Churchill State Historic Park Andre Agassi Catherine Cortez Masto Bryce Harper Meaghan Martin Tony Mendez Harry Reid Daveigh Chase Kyle Busch Brandon Flowers DeMarco Murray Jenny Lewis Piper's Opera House Sedan (nuclear test) Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area Empetrichthys latos Anaconda Copper Mine (Nevada) Pioneer, Nevada Area15 Adventuredome The Hangover Cortez Gold Mine Stateline, Nevada Ruby Mountains McDermitt, Nevada and Oregon 2018 United States Senate election in Nevada 2020 United States presidential election in Nevada High Roller (Ferris wheel) University of Nevada, Reno The Strat (Las Vegas) Fontainebleau Las Vegas Giga Nevada General images - The following are images from various Nevada-related articles on Wikipedia. Winnemucca Lake petroglyphs; researchers dated the carvings to between 14,800 and 10,500 years ago. (from History of Nevada) Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Calico basin (from Nevada) The 1931 gambling law helped enable the explosive growth of the Las Vegas area, where the population grew from five thousand in 1930 to over two million by 2013. (from History of Nevada) Ranching in Washoe County (from Nevada) Lake Tahoe on the Nevada–California border (from Nevada) The Las Vegas Strip looking South (from Nevada) Carson City Mint in Carson City. Carson City is an independent city and the capital of Nevada. (from Nevada) Population density map of Nevada (from Nevada) Valley of Fire State Park (from Nevada) Map of the States of California and Nevada by SB Linton, 1876 (from Nevada) Mountains west of Las Vegas in the Mojave Desert (from Nevada) Mexico in 1824. Alta California included today's Nevada. (from Nevada) Little Finland rock formation in Nevada (from Nevada) MGM Grand, with sign promoting it as The City of Entertainment (from Nevada) The quartzite of Doso Doyabi in Great Basin National Park (from Nevada) Mount Charleston (from Nevada) U.S. Route 50, also known as "The Loneliest Road in America" (from Nevada) Nevada territory in 1861 (from Nevada) Nevada territory in 1861 (from Nevada) Valley of Fire State Park (from Nevada) Mount Charleston (from Nevada) The Nevada 1861 territory boundary (blue) changed three times: 1864 statehood shifted eastern border from 39th to 38th meridian, 1866 May 5; east border (pink) moved eastward 53.3 mi (85.8 km), from the 38th to 37th meridian, and 1867 January 18; south boundary (yellow) moved from the 37th parallel north southward to the current boundary (14 Stat. 43) (from History of Nevada) Carson City Mint in Carson City. Carson City is an independent city and the capital of Nevada. (from Nevada) MGM Grand, with sign promoting it as The City of Entertainment (from Nevada) U.S. Route 50, also known as "The Loneliest Road in America" (from Nevada) Great Basin National Park (from Nevada) Mexico in 1824. Alta California included today's Nevada. (from Nevada) Great Basin National Park (from Nevada) State route shield (from Nevada) Population density map of Nevada (from Nevada) A map that details the federal land in southern Nevada, showing Nellis Air Force Base Complex and Nevada Test Site (from Nevada) Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Calico basin (from Nevada) Bottle house in the mining ghost town of Rhyolite; built in 1906 with about 50,000 bottles (from Nevada) Ethnic origins in Nevada (from Nevada) The courthouse of the Supreme Court of Nevada (from Nevada) The courthouse of the Supreme Court of Nevada (from Nevada) A burro-drawn wagon hauling lumber and supplies into Goldfield, Nevada, ca.1904. In 1903 only 36 people lived in the new town. By 1908 Goldfield was Nevada's largest city, with over 25,000 inhabitants. (from History of Nevada) The Winnemucca Sand Dunes, north of Winnemucca (from Nevada) The Nevada State Legislative Building in Carson City (from Nevada) Ethnic origins in Nevada (from Nevada) Lake Tahoe on the Nevada–California border (from Nevada) State route shield (from Nevada) The Las Vegas Strip looking South (from Nevada) East Las Vegas suburbs (from Nevada) Goldstrike (Post-Betze) Mine in the Carlin Trend, the largest Carlin-type deposit in the world, containing more than 35,000,000 troy ounces (1,100 t) gold (from Nevada) Map of counties in Nevada by racial plurality, per the 2020 census Legend Non-Hispanic White   30–40%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% (from Nevada) Ranching in Washoe County (from Nevada) Köppen climate types of Nevada, using 1991-2020 climate normals. (from Nevada) A valley near Pyramid Lake (from Nevada) A valley near Pyramid Lake (from Nevada) Nevada quarter (from Nevada) Bottle house in the mining ghost town of Rhyolite; built in 1906 with about 50,000 bottles (from Nevada) Ruins of an early 20th-century mill, Winnemucca Mountain (from History of Nevada) Topographic map of Nevada (from Nevada) Sculpture representing a steam locomotive, in Ely, Nevada. Early locomotives played an important part in Nevada's mining industry. (from Nevada) Map of counties in Nevada by racial plurality, per the 2020 census Legend Non-Hispanic White   30–40%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% (from Nevada) Majority/plurality party in each Nevada county (February 2023):   Democrat >= 30%   Republican >= 30%   Republican >= 40%   Republican >= 50%   Republican >= 60% (from Nevada) Sculpture representing a steam locomotive, in Ely, Nevada. Early locomotives played an important part in Nevada's mining industry. (from Nevada) Cattle near the Bruneau River in Elko County (from Nevada) East Las Vegas suburbs (from Nevada) A map that details the federal land in southern Nevada, showing Nellis Air Force Base Complex and Nevada Test Site (from Nevada) The Winnemucca Sand Dunes, north of Winnemucca (from Nevada) Map of the States of California and Nevada by SB Linton, 1876 (from Nevada) Flag of Nevada, 1905–1915 (from History of Nevada) Map of the States of California and Nevada by SB Linton, 1876 (from History of Nevada) Little Finland rock formation in Nevada (from Nevada) Topographic map of Nevada (from Nevada) Köppen climate types of Nevada, using 1991-2020 climate normals. (from Nevada) Cattle near the Bruneau River in Elko County (from Nevada) Majority/plurality party in each Nevada county (February 2023):   Democrat >= 30%   Republican >= 30%   Republican >= 40%   Republican >= 50%   Republican >= 60% (from Nevada) Mountains west of Las Vegas in the Mojave Desert (from Nevada) The Nevada State Legislative Building in Carson City (from Nevada) Downtown Reno (from Nevada) The quartzite of Doso Doyabi in Great Basin National Park (from Nevada) Goldstrike (Post-Betze) Mine in the Carlin Trend, the largest Carlin-type deposit in the world, containing more than 35,000,000 troy ounces (1,100 t) gold (from Nevada) Nevada quarter (from Nevada) Downtown Reno (from Nevada) Did you know - ... that in 1974, a hoard of more than 400,000 silver dollars was discovered in Nevada? ... that Lincoln Fitzgerald survived a 1949 murder attempt and went on to run three Nevada casinos? ... that a Nevada radio station named "Sexy" blew into town with a windstorm? Topics Largest cities Name Type County Population (2020) Population (2010) Change Land area (2020) Population density Incorporation date sq mi km2 Boulder City City Clark 14,885 15,023 −0.9% 208.52 540.1 71.4/sq mi (27.6/km2) October 1, 1959 Reno† City Washoe 264,165 225,221 +17.3% 108.77 281.7 2,428.7/sq mi (937.7/km2) March 16, 1903 Caliente City Lincoln 990 1,130 −12.4% 1.87 4.8 529.4/sq mi (204.4/km2) October 1, 1959 Carlin City Elko 2,050 2,368 −13.4% 10.44 27.0 196.4/sq mi (75.8/km2) October 22, 1925 Carson City‡ — None 58,639 55,274 +6.1% 144.66 374.7 405.4/sq mi (156.5/km2) March 1, 1875 Elko† City Elko Ely† City White Pine Fallon† City Churchill Fernley City Lyon Henderson City Clark Las Vegas† City Clark <span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;">  State capital and independent city <span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;">  County seat Category puzzle Select [►] to view subcategories Nevada Nevada-related lists Communications in Nevada Nevada culture Economy of Nevada Education in Nevada Environment of Nevada Geography of Nevada Government of Nevada Health in Nevada History of Nevada Nevada law Military in Nevada Native American tribes in Nevada Natural history of Nevada People from Nevada Politics of Nevada Professional wrestling in Nevada Science and technology in Nevada Nevada society Tourist attractions in Nevada Transportation in Nevada Works about Nevada Images of Nevada Nevada stubs This list was generated from these rules. 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