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Las Vegas in the 1940s was notable for the establishment of The Strip in a town which "combined Wild West frontier friendliness with glamor and excitement". [1] In 1940, the population was 8,400 but within five years, it more than doubled its size. [2] The Las Vegas Valley had a population of 13,937 in 1940, increasing to 35,000 in just two ...
The table starts counting approximately 10,000 years before present, or around 8,000 BC, during the middle Greenlandian, about 1,700 years after the end of the Younger Dryas and 1,800 years before the 8.2-kiloyear event. From the beginning of the early modern period until the 20th century, world population has been characterized by a rapid growth.
The Las Vegas and Reno areas were affected most by the increase in population. Las Vegas was just a town of 8,422 people in 1940. By 1950 it had grown to 24,624, a gain of 192.4%. Reno went from a population of 21,317 in 1940 to 32,492 in 1950. [1] [4] Mining and the military industries were not the only industries to benefit from the war.
It was billed as "Las Vegas's first resort hotel" and marked an important landmark in the city's history and development. [16] The Showboat was built by William J. Moore of the Last Frontier and J. Kell Houssels of the Las Vegas Club [17] for $2 million. [18] The first resort within Las Vegas city limits, it had 100 rooms on two floors. [19]
Las Vegas' second television station, KLRJ-TV (now KSNV), signs on from Henderson; it will move to Las Vegas by the end of the year. 1956 The City of Las Vegas annexes one square mile of land, the first such addition of land since incorporation 45 years earlier. [1] Las Vegas Air Force Station in use. Fremont Hotel in business.
The population doubling time in the greater metropolitan area was under ten years, since the early 1970s and the Las Vegas metropolitan area now has a population approaching three million people. [8] This rapid population growth led to a significant urbanization of desert lands into industrial and commercial areas (see suburbia ).
Las Vegas was the largest city founded in the 20th century, [33] and by 2006 it was the 28th largest city in the U.S., with a population of 552,000 in the city and nearly 1.8 million in Clark County. Heightened growth resulted in rapid development of commercial and residential areas throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
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.