• Thumbnail for Mountain City, Nevada
    Mountain City is a census-designated place in Elko County, Nevada, United States, within the Mountain City Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National...
    9 KB (435 words) - 14:10, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carson City, Nevada
    Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 miles (50 km) south of Reno. The city is named after the mountain man Kit Carson. The town began as...
    57 KB (4,949 words) - 12:03, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reno, Nevada
    is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada–California border. It is the county seat and most populous city of Washoe...
    102 KB (9,668 words) - 06:07, 21 October 2024
  • Mountain City is the name of several places, mainly in the United States: Mountain City, Georgia Mountain City, Nevada Mountain City, Tennessee Mountain...
    354 bytes (74 words) - 11:42, 24 March 2017
  • Thumbnail for Boulder City, Nevada
    Boulder City is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It is approximately 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Las Vegas. As of the 2020 census, the...
    35 KB (3,488 words) - 19:51, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sierra Nevada
    The Sierra Nevada (/siˌɛrə nɪˈvædə, -ˈvɑːd-/ see-ERR-ə nih-VA(H)D-ə) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California...
    72 KB (7,404 words) - 06:03, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle Mountain, Nevada
    Battle Mountain is an unincorporated town in, and the county seat of, Lander County, Nevada, United States. The population was 3,705 at the 2020 census...
    26 KB (2,523 words) - 23:09, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
    Yucca Mountain for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste in the United States. The site is on federal land adjacent to the Nevada Test...
    86 KB (10,020 words) - 23:32, 1 October 2024
  • Almost all of Nevada is in the Pacific Time Zone (UTC -8). The few exceptions that exist all observe Mountain Time (UTC -7) and are close to the borders...
    3 KB (255 words) - 21:01, 6 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mountain states
    States. The Mountain states are considered to include: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The words "Mountain states"...
    52 KB (2,017 words) - 03:11, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of cities in Nevada
    populous city in Nevada Mountains around North Las Vegas, suburb of Las Vegas Sparks, suburb of Reno and Nevada's fifth most populous city Carson City, Nevada's...
    14 KB (598 words) - 19:04, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Virginia City, Nevada
    Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, and the largest community in the county. The city is a...
    46 KB (4,598 words) - 14:08, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jarbidge, Nevada
    in Elko County, Nevada, United States. Located at the bottom of the Jarbidge River's canyon near the north end of the Jarbidge Mountains, it lies within...
    15 KB (693 words) - 23:05, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nevada
    state's four largest incorporated cities. Nevada's capital is Carson City. Las Vegas is the largest city in the state. Nevada is officially known as the "Silver...
    162 KB (13,413 words) - 20:21, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nevada City, California
    settled Nevada City in 1849, during the California Gold Rush, as Nevada (Spanish for "snow-covered", a reference to the snow-topped mountains in the area)...
    45 KB (4,175 words) - 01:03, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sierra Nevada (Spain)
    Sierra Nevada (Spanish: [ˈsjera neˈβaða]; meaning "snow-covered mountain range") is a mountain range in the Andalusian province of Granada in Spain. It...
    12 KB (870 words) - 23:37, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for U.S. Route 50 in Nevada
    from West Sacramento, California, in the west to Ocean City, Maryland, on the east coast. The Nevada portion crosses the center of the state and was named...
    59 KB (4,908 words) - 08:33, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
    The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (English: Snow-Covered Mountain Range of Saint Martha) is an isolated mountain range in northern Colombia, separate from...
    16 KB (1,666 words) - 10:41, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elko, Nevada
    Elko is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Elko County. As of the official 2020 U.S. Census, the city has a population of 20,564...
    30 KB (2,676 words) - 16:48, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of brothels in Nevada
    Battle Mountain Mound House Mina Amargosa Valley Crystal Pahrump Sparks Ely Las Vegas Reno This is a historical list of the legal brothels in Nevada. They...
    68 KB (7,258 words) - 21:11, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Slide Mountain (Nevada)
    Slide Mountain is a 9,702-foot (2,957 m) peak in the Carson Range near Reno, in Washoe County, Nevada. From the summit of Slide Mountain, Lake Tahoe, Washoe...
    6 KB (493 words) - 23:46, 14 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nevada City, Montana
    strikes in the Rocky Mountain West, along with its sister city Virginia City. As the gold played out and prospectors moved away, Nevada City gradually became...
    9 KB (861 words) - 18:14, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Black Mountain (Nevada)
    McCullough Range. Another mountain, adjacent to Interstate 11 in Henderson, is commonly called Black Mountain, including by the city of Henderson. It is actually...
    2 KB (244 words) - 16:06, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mountain Springs, Nevada
    Mountain Springs is an unincorporated community in Clark County in southern Nevada. It is located in Mountain Springs Summit, the pass over the Spring...
    5 KB (228 words) - 13:24, 27 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Elko County, Nevada
    Elko County is a county in the northeastern corner of Nevada, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 53,702. Its county seat is Elko...
    25 KB (2,150 words) - 19:18, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Copper Mountain (Nevada)
    Copper Mountain is the highest mountain in the Copper Mountains of northern Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is located within the Mountain City Ranger...
    2 KB (97 words) - 17:19, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Nevada
    had never established any control in Nevada, but American mountain men were in Washoe (the early name for Nevada) as early as 1827. A permanent American...
    51 KB (5,576 words) - 12:20, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henderson, Nevada
    a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about 16 miles (26 km) southeast of downtown Las Vegas. It is the 2nd most populous city in Nevada, after...
    50 KB (4,163 words) - 13:44, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clark County, Nevada
    state's population, making Nevada the most centralized state in the United States. Las Vegas, the state's most populous city, has been the county seat...
    61 KB (5,132 words) - 21:34, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for West Wendover, Nevada
    West Wendover is a small city in Elko County, Nevada, United States. The population was 4,512 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Elko micropolitan...
    17 KB (1,495 words) - 16:49, 13 August 2024