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According to Benchmarkia, Tahoe-Reno Industrial Centre is the sixth largest industrial park by area in the world. [6] Facilities include rail-serviced sites with Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway, municipal water and sewer, natural gas service, and five power plants on site producing more than 900 megawatts (1,200,000 hp). [1] [7] [8]
Predecessors of the Tonopah and Goldfield (T&G) Railroad, including the Tonopah Railroad, began operations in 1903. [2] The decade of the 1900s was a period of frenzied railroad-building in southwestern Nevada, with rich silver ore discovered at Tonopah in 1900 [3] and gold-bearing quartz at Goldfield in 1902. [1]
Reno, Nevada – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity(NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [48] Pop 2010 [49] Pop 2020 [50] % 2000 % 2010 % 2020
KRNV-DT (channel 4) is a television station in Reno, Nevada, United States, affiliated with NBC.It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Fox affiliate KRXI-TV (channel 11), for the provision of certain services.
Panoramic view towards Reno, from a lookout point along the Geiger Grade portion of SR 341 SR 341 began as a toll facility constructed by Davison M. Geiger and John H. Tilton in 1862. [ 4 ] Despite the dangers associated with traveling the route, Geiger Grade was a well-traveled route that provided the most direct connection between the ...
The newspaper came into being when the Nevada State Journal (founded on November 23, 1870) and the Reno Evening Gazette (founded on March 28, 1876) were combined on October 7, 1983. [2] Speidel Newspapers bought the Gazette on October 1, 1939, and bought the Journal a month later. [3] Gannett bought Speidel Newspapers on May 11, 1977. [4]
Verdi (/ ˈ v ɜːr d aɪ / VUR-dye) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. [2] It is on the western side of the Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area, near Interstate 80 and stretches eastward towards its neighborhood-exclave of Lawton, Nevada surrounded by Reno, Nevada west of Mae Anne Avenue.
The Downtown Reno Library is the main library of the Washoe County Library System, at 301 S. Center St. in Reno, Nevada. It occupies a historic Modern -style building listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Washoe County Library .