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The Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County (RTC) is the public body responsible for the transportation needs throughout Reno, Sparks and Washoe County, Nevada. The RTC, founded by the Nevada Legislature in 1979, is an amalgamation of the Regional Street and Highway Commission, the Regional Transit Commission and the Washoe County ...
Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA) is a public authority providing water services in the Truckee Meadows of Washoe County in Northern Nevada, which serves more than 330,000 residents. The Authority is governed by a seven-member Board of Directors, appointed by the cities of Reno and Sparks and Washoe County. The staff is led by a General ...
In 1864, Washoe County was consolidated with Roop County, and Lake's Crossing became the county's largest town. Lake had earned himself the title "founder of Reno". [ 9 ] Once the railroad station was established, the town of Reno officially came into being on May 9, 1868. [ 10 ]
Washoe County School District is the school district for the entire county. [30] The Bureau of Indian Education-contracted Pyramid Lake Schools is in Nixon. There is a charter school, Coral Academy of Science; and these private schools: Bishop Manogue High School and Excel Christian School. University of Nevada, Reno is in Reno.
Bullfrog County, Nevada, formed in 1987 from part of Nye county. Creation was declared unconstitutional and abolished in 1989. [1] Lake County, Nevada, one of the original nine counties formed in 1861. Renamed Roop County in 1862. Part became Lassen County, California in 1864. Nevada remainder annexed in 1883 to Washoe county. [1]
Verdi (/ ˈ v ɜːr d aɪ / VUR-dye) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. [2] It is on the western side of the Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area, near Interstate 80 and stretches eastward towards its neighborhood-exclave of Lawton, Nevada surrounded by Reno, Nevada west of Mae Anne Avenue.
As of the 2010 census, there were 425,417 people, 165,187 households, and 103,909 families residing within the MSA.The racial makeup of the MSA was 77.0% White, 2.3% African American, 1.7% Native American, 5.1% Asian, 0.6% Pacific Islander, 9.4% some other race, and 3.8% from two or more races.
[3] [4] It lies just east of the Patrick area, about 17 miles east of Reno, just off Interstate 80, between Exit 28 and Exit 32. It is situated on the south bank of the Truckee River, which forms the county line between Storey County and Washoe County on the other side of the river. Frank A. Tracy Generating Station 17 miles east of Reno