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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.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated two combined statistical areas, three metropolitan statistical areas, and five micropolitan statistical areas in Nevada. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Las Vegas-Henderson, NV CSA , comprising the area around Nevada's largest city, Las Vegas .
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 ]
Nevada is the sixteenth richest state in the United States of America, with a per capita income of $21,989 (2000) and a personal per capita income of $31,266 (2003). Nevada counties and cities ranked by per capita income
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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,265,461.
A COVID-19 face mask store at The Forum Shops in Las Vegas, October 2020. Las Vegas stores began running out of face masks in January 2020, as residents started purchasing them out of concern. [108] [145] Nevada initially did not issue a mask mandate for its residents, [146] although Sisolak, in April 2020, advised their use while in public. [147]
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.
North Las Vegas is a suburban city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, in the Las Vegas Valley. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 262,527, with an estimated population of 280,543 in 2022. [ 9 ]