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Las Vegas was founded as a city in 1905, when 110 acres of land adjacent to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks were auctioned in what would become the downtown area. The first hotel in the area, the Hotel Nevada, was built in 1906; it is still operating as the Golden Gate Hotel and Casino. [2] [3] In 1911, Las Vegas was incorporated as a city.
Las Vegas is the largest metro area in the US without passenger rail service. In 2005 DesertXpress Enterprises LLC was formed in an attempt to restore passenger rail service to Las Vegas Valley, though their terminal is planned to be a newly constructed station in Enterprise, south of Downtown Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Strip. [6]
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about 4.2 mi (6.8 km) long, [1] and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, but is often referred to simply as "Las Vegas".
The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States. The state's largest urban agglomeration, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Statistical Area is coextensive since 2003 with Clark County, Nevada. [2] The Valley is largely defined by the Las Vegas ...
32-40000. GNIS feature ID. 847388. Website. lasvegasnevada.gov. Las Vegas, [a] often known simply as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-largest in the Southwestern United States. [6][7] Las ...
Area code (s) 702 and 725. FIPS code. 32-31900. Website. www.cityofhenderson.com. Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about 16 miles (26 km) southeast of downtown Las Vegas. It is the 2nd most populous city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with an estimated population of 320,189 in 2019. The city is part of the Las Vegas Valley.
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Map of the United States with Nevada highlighted. Nevada is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, it is the 32nd most populous state, with 3,104,614 inhabitants, [1] but the 7th largest by land area spanning 109,781.18 square miles (284,332.0 km 2). [2]