Las Vegas, Nevada

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• Clark County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 29 shown

• Berkley Squarelisted 2009
• Clark Avenue Railroad Underpasslisted 2004
• El Cortez Hotel and Casinolisted 2013
• Green Shacklisted 1994
• Harrison's Guest Houselisted 2016
• Huntridge Theaterlisted 1993
• John S. Park Historic Districtlisted 2003
• Las Vegas Grammar Schoollisted 1979
• Las Vegas Grammar Schoollisted 1988
• Las Vegas High School Academic Building and Gymnasiumlisted 1986
• Las Vegas High School Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 1991
• Las Vegas Mormon Fortlisted 1972

Every listing in Clark County

Surveyed buildings and structures 4 records

• Desert National Wildlife Refuge Residence, 1510 Decatur Boulevard, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 8 photographs
• United States Post Office & Court House, 300 East Steward Avenue, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 54 photographs
• Westside School, Annex, Corner of Washington Avenue and D Street, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 14 photographs
• Westside School, Corner of Washington Avenue and D Street, Las Vegasfederal building survey, 9 photographs

Las Vegas grew from 25 to 641,903 between 1900 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1907 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1908 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1952 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:62500
• 1954 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Las Vegas NW quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1973 USGS Las Vegas NW quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Las Vegas quadrangle1:100000, 4 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Las Vegas between 1995 and 2016, burning about 22,002 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Paradise
• Boulder Junction
• Bracken
• Hoover City (historical)
• North Las Vegas
• Spring Valley

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Las Vegas: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Clark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Las Vegas in 117 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 33 flash flood, 26 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail, 14 lightning. The reports record 4 deaths and 4 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Clark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 847388. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.