Nevada Local Government

Paradise, Sunrise Manor, and Spring Valley are unincorporated towns in the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

Note: table was compiled using Nevada State estimates from 2004 for population and Census 2000 for area and density

Ranked by per capita income

1. Incline Village-Crystal Bay $52,521
2. Kingsbury $41,451
3. Mount Charleston $38,821
4. Verdi-Mogul $38,233
5. Zephyr Cove-Round Hill Village $37,218
6. Summerlin South $33,017
7. Blue Diamond $30,479
8. Minden $30,405
9. Boulder City $29,770
10. Spanish Springs $26,908

• Sierra Nevada College
• Morrison University
• Nevada System of Higher Education
  • University of Nevada, Reno (UNR)
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
  • Nevada State College at Henderson
  • Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)
  • Great Basin College
  • Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN)
  • Western Nevada Community College
• Touro University Nevada
• University of Southern Nevada

• California National Historic Trail
• Death Valley National Park
• Great Basin National Park near Baker
• Lake Mead National Recreation Area
• Old Spanish National Historic Trail
• Pony Express National Historic Trail

• Mount Charleston and the Mount Charleston Wilderness Area

• Spring Mountains and the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area
• Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
• Bootleg Canyon Mountain Bike Park
• Ash Meadows National Wildlife Preserve

• Las Vegas Gladiators, Arena Football League
• Las Vegas 51s, minor league baseball
• Las Vegas Wranglers, East Coast Hockey League
• Sin City Neanderdolls, Roller Derby
• Reno Silver Sox, Golden Baseball League
• Reno Raiders, ECHL
• Las Vegas Posse, Canadian Football League (defunct)
• Las Vegas Outlaws, XFL (defunct)
• UNLV Rebels
• University of Nevada Wolf Pack
• Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Nevada's nicknames are "Sagebrush State, "Battle Born State", and "Silver State", and the state's motto is "All for Our Country". "Home Means Nevada" by Bertha Rafetto is the state song. The phrase "Battle Born" is on the state flag; "The Battle Born State" is the official state slogan, as Nevada was admitted into the union during the American Civil War.

Although the name is derived from the Spanish word nevada meaning "snowy", the local pronunciation of the state's name is not IPA: [n??v?d?], but IPA: [n??væd?]. Residents use the state name as a Shibboleth to determine whether or not the speaker is a native Nevadan. Residents also often regard the pronunciation as a test of whether visitors such as presidential candidates, have informed themselves about the state. In 2005, the state issued a new series of license plates that list the name of the state as Nev?da to help with the pronunciation problem.

Several United States Navy ships have been named USS Nevada in honor of the state.

Nevada is the only state with legalized prostitution.

Nevada is home to Nellis Air Force Base, a major testing and training base of the United States Air Force. Nellis is reputedly the home of Area 51, a top-secret installation of which the U.S. federal government has always denied existence. Area 51 is supposedly located in Groom Lake.

The paranormal radio talk show host Art Bell lives in Pahrump, Nevada.

In Finnish language there is a very well known concept "Huitsin Nevada", which refers to some far away place in spoken language (in a same way as a saying "from here to Timbuktoo"). The origin and history of the saying is unknown. "Nevada" refers to the name of this US state and "Huitsin" is a slang word meaning "very" or "utter".

A fictional history (with a great deal of fact) titled Nevada was written by Clint McCullough.

• Black Rock Desert
• Burning Man
• List of cities in Nevada
• List of Governors of Nevada
• List of law enforcement agencies in Nevada
• List of mountain ranges of Nevada
• List of Nevada counties
• List of Nevada rivers
• List of Nevada state prisons
• List of people from Nevada
• List of radio stations in Nevada
• List of television stations in Nevada
• List of United States Senators from Nevada
• Nevada census statistical areas
• Nevada Highway Patrol
• Scouting in Nevada

1. ^ a b Elevations and Distances in the United States. U.S Geological Survey (29 April 2005). Retrieved on November 6, 2006.
2. ^ National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, N.C., and Storm Phillips, STORMFAX, INC.
3. ^ Rocha Guy, Historical Myth a Month: Why Did Nevada Become A State?
4. ^ Nevada Mining Association, Economic Overview of the Nevada Mining Industry 2004
5. ^ United States Department of Agriculture Nevada State Agriculture Overview - 2005
6. ^ Lawrence M. Friedman, American Law in the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 596-597.
7. ^ STATE DEPARTMENTS - AGENCIES. Retrieved on 2007-06-27.

• Official Registry for NV.com
• Official state website
• Nevada state symbols
• Secretary of State of Nevada
• Nevada State Library and Archives
  • Why Did Nevada Become a State? from the NSLA
• USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Nevada
• US Census Bureau
• County Maps of Nevada Full color maps. List of cities, towns and county seats
• Nevada State Facts
• Nevada Commission on Tourism
• Nevada's Summits
• For Sale By Owner Nevada
• Nevada Rentals
• Climate of Nevada
• Nevada Weather
• Geologic Map of Nevada for Google Earth
• Ghost Towns In Nevada

Coordinates: 39° N 117° W