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The parallel 36°30′ north is a circle of latitude that is 36 1 ⁄ 2 degrees north of the equator of the Earth. This parallel of latitude is particularly significant in the history of the United States as the line of the Missouri Compromise , which was used to divide the prospective slave and free states west of the Mississippi River , with ...
The 36th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 36 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean. In the ancient Mediterranean world, its role for navigation and geography was similar to that played by the Equator today. [1]
Primarily from the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual. [1] State names usually signify only parts of each listed state, unless otherwise indicated. Based on the BLM manual's 1973 publication date, and the reference to Clarke's Spheroid of 1866 in section 2-82, coordinates appear to be in the NAD27 datum.
The downstream Nevada half of the valley has the very beginnings of Lake Mead, about 20 miles (32 km) upstream, where the Virgin River used to flow. Littlefield, AZ in the valley's northeast [ 4 ] is located at 36°54′0″N 113°56′0″W / 36.90000°N 113.93333°W / 36.90000; -113.
Of these 477 summits, 117 are located in Colorado, 67 in Alaska, 51 in California, 43 in Wyoming, 42 in Montana, 40 in Utah, 38 in Nevada, 36 in Idaho, 26 in New Mexico, five in Arizona, five in Oregon, four in Washington, and three in Hawaiʻi.
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Nevada, sorted by type and name. In 2022, Nevada had a total summer capacity of 13,541 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 42,591 GWh. [ 2 ]
October 19, 2023 at 7:30 AM. ... Macau's casinos generated about $36 billion in revenue in 2019; Nevada, ... again overtaking Nevada and Las Vegas, ...
The site, also known as Nevada's "Lost City", [2] was founded by Basketmaker people about 300 A.D., and was later occupied by other groups and the Ancestral Pueblo until 1150 A.D. [3] The site also shows signs of human occupation as early as 8000 BC. Some of the houses in the Lost City had up to 20 rooms, with the largest having 100 rooms. [4]