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Zephyr Cove is located on the east shore of Lake Tahoe at According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.8 km 2 ), of which 2.1 square miles (5.5 km 2 ) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km 2 ), or 5.47%, is water.
In 1935, George Whittell Jr. purchased the 27 miles of Lake Tahoe shoreline and nearly 40,000 acres from Norman Biltz. It encompassed essentially 95% of the Nevada shoreline of Lake Tahoe — all of the land from Crystal Bay, Incline Village, Sand Harbor, Glenbrook, Cave Rock, and Zephyr Cove to Round Hill.
Zephyr Cove is immediately to the north, and Stateline is to the south. Kingsbury occupies the ridge to the east. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Round Hill Village CDP has a total area of 5.9 square miles (15.3 km 2 ), of which 5.8 square miles (15.0 km 2 ) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km 2 ), or 2.19%, is water.
The Zephyr Cove–Round Hill Village CDP was located at (38.997854, -119.945933 [1]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP had a total area of 8.2 square miles (21.2 km 2), of which 7.9 square miles (20.5 km 2) was land and 0.27 square miles (0.7 km 2), or 3.17%, was water.
Douglas County is a county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Nevada.As of the 2020 census, the population was 49,488. [1] Its county seat is Minden. [2] Douglas County comprises the Gardnerville Ranchos, NV Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Reno–Carson City–Fernley, NV Combined Statistical Area.
The Edgewood Tahoe Resort golf course lies along the Lake Tahoe shoreline. The Heavenly Mountain Resort ski area is on the California–Nevada border. Another well-known feature of Stateline is Kingsbury Grade, which runs up and over a mountain pass, rising from Lake Tahoe and dropping down to the Carson Valley on the other side. Most of ...
The Lena N. Gale Cabin, in a development near Lake Tahoe at 726 Cedar St. in Zephyr Cove, Nevada, is a historic building built in 1940. Also known as Good Medicine Cabin, it is an example of Rustic architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]
George Whittell High School is located in Zephyr Cove, Nevada, near the South Shore of Lake Tahoe.As of 2021, the school housed grades 6 through 12. The school is named after late millionaire George Whittell, Jr. who purchased the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe for his mansion, the Thunderbird Lodge and donated land to the University of Nevada, Reno and the CDP of Zephyr Cove.