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Las Vegas City Hall in downtown Las Vegas. The city of Las Vegas has a council–manager government. The mayor sits as a council member-at-large and presides over all city council meetings. If the mayor cannot preside over a City Council meeting, then the Mayor Pro-Tem is the presiding officer of the meeting until the Mayor returns to his/her seat.
The ten United States statistical areas, 16 counties and one independent city of the State of Nevada [a] Combined statistical area [1] 2023 population (est.) [3] Core-based statistical area [1] 2023 population (est.) [3] County 2023 population (est.) [3] Las Vegas–Henderson, NV CSA: 2,392,293 Las Vegas–Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV MSA ...
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV (Metropolitan Statistical Area) 178,388 ... Salt Lake City, UT (Metropolitan Statistical Area) 147,519 135,409 118,494 94,306
The largest municipality by population in Nevada is Las Vegas with 641,903 residents, and the smallest is Caliente with 990 residents. [1] The largest municipality by land area is Boulder City , which spans 208.52 sq mi (540.1 km 2 ), while Lovelock is the smallest at 0.85 sq mi (2.2 km 2 ). [ 2 ]
The Las Vegas–Henderson combined statistical area, known prior to 2013 as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Pahrump combined statistical area, is made up of two counties in southern Nevada. [2] The statistical area consists of the Las Vegas–Henderson–North Las Vegas, NV MSA and the Pahrump, NV micropolitan statistical area .
Clark County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada, which also comprises the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV metropolitan statistical area.The land area of Clark County is 8,061 square miles (20,880 km 2), or roughly the size of New Jersey.
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The first reported non-Native American visitor to the Las Vegas Valley was the Mexican scout Rafael Rivera in 1829.[9] [10] [11] Las Vegas was named by Mexicans in the Antonio Armijo party, [4] including Rivera, who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas.