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Blue Diamond is the site of Cottonwood Spring (formerly known as Ojo de Cayetana, or Pearl Spring), a watering place and camp site on the Old Spanish Trail and the later Mormon Road between Mountain Springs and Las Vegas Springs.
The Blue Diamond Mine has operated on the land since the 1920s. Gypsum has been mined at the site, which is known as Blue Diamond Hill and is located west of Las Vegas.Blue Diamond Hill is located near the eastern edge, but not inside, of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, near the community of Blue Diamond, Nevada.
This segment of SR 159 is known on maps and signs as Blue Diamond Road (assuming the name from SR 160), but is also referred to as Red Rock Canyon Road. As SR 159 enters the city of Las Vegas, it transitions into Charleston Boulevard, a major east–west section line arterial bisecting the Las Vegas Valley.
Blue Diamond Hill is an upfaulted block, consisting of Permian and Lower Triassic sediments. [2] It has an elevation of 4,931 feet. [3] Nevada has 45 cactus species, 25 of which are located on Blue Diamond Hill. [4] The Blue Diamond cholla is among the cactus species there. [5] Other plant life includes Joshua trees, yucca, and globe mallows. [6]
Module:Location map/data/United States Las Vegas Strip is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Las Vegas Strip. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The southern section began at Tropicana Avenue and ran north along Jones Boulevard 3.061 miles (4.926 km) to the Las Vegas city limits at Sahara Avenue. The northern section resumed at Charleston Boulevard ( SR 159 ) and continued 3.026 miles (4.870 km) north to its terminus at Smoke Ranch Road.
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The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States.The state's largest urban agglomeration, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Statistical Area is coextensive since 2003 with Clark County, Nevada. [2]