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North Las Vegas campus Henderson campus. The College of Southern Nevada (CSN) is a public community college in Clark County, Nevada. The college has more than 2,500 teaching and non-teaching staff and is the largest public college or university in Nevada. [1] [2] It is part of the Nevada System of Higher Education.
College of Southern Nevada: Las Vegas: Four and Two year: 1971: 28,901 Founded as Clark County Community College, later renamed the Community College of Southern Nevada. Desert Research Institute: Reno and Las Vegas: Graduate: 1959: 440 Degrees awarded through the University of Nevada, Reno. Great Basin College: Elko: Four year 1967: 3,197
University of Nevada, Las Vegas was the second four-year university in the state to be founded, initially as Nevada Southern University in 1957. Winning its autonomy in 1965, Nevada Southern was renamed in 1969 due to the need for better national recognition and partially for separation from the University of Nevada. [ 1 ]
Dan Wheldon, 33, was airlifted to the trauma center after a 15-car pile-up crash at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway during the final race of the 2011 IZOD IndyCar season on October 16, 2011. He was pronounced dead from blunt force trauma to his head at 1:54 pm. of complications from injuries sustained after a race accident.
Description: This map shows the cities in Clark County, Nevada.. Highlighting North Las Vegas in red.; Credits. I created it in Inkscape using data from the following files: Census 2000 Block Map - Clark County and Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act Map ()
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant [a] research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States. [3] The 332-acre (134 ha) [6] campus is about 1.6 mi (2.6 km) east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969.
Nevada State University's 509-acre (206 ha) site is located at the base of the McCullough mountain range in the southeastern corner of Henderson. [31] The site was conveyed from the Bureau of Land Management to the city of Henderson in November 2002 as part of the Clark County Conservation of Public Lands and Natural Resources Act of 2002.
The population of the region, as measured by the 2020 U.S. Census, is 2,327,680, with 2,265,461 living in the Las Vegas Valley (i.e., Clark County). Over time and influenced by climate change, droughts in Southern Nevada have been increasing in frequency and severity, [2] putting a further strain on Las Vegas's and Southern Nevada’s water ...