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North Las Vegas, Nevada

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89030. It stands on Vegas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Las Vegas NE quadrangle. 262,527 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,205 feet above sea level.

North Las Vegas within Clark County

On record in North Las Vegas

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 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 10 records

Population over time

2 figures

North Las Vegas grew from 216,961 to 262,527 between 2010 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.

YearPeople Change
2010216,961
2020262,527+45,566 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 printed sheets

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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

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.

Kiel Ranch, Foreman's House, 200 West Carey Avenue, North Las Vegas, Clark County, NV
Kiel Ranch, Foreman's House, 200 West Carey Avenue, North Las Vegas, Clark County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of North Las Vegas between 1995 and 2016, burning about 22,007 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 75
1 August 1997Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresLake Mead National Recreation AreaCLARK CO 2
7 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 66
3 July 2016Fireworksunder an acreClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 59
12 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 69
11 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 68
11 July 2004Smokingunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCALICO
1 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClark County Fire DepartmentCLRX 54

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Las Vegas: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Womack Construction Co. Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Las Vegas in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 dust devil, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2013LightningNorth Las Vegas$50,000Lightning damaged two major distribution circuits, knocking out power to about 2000 people.
May 2012Dust DevilNorth Las Vegas$50,000The dust devil uprooted trees and then struck a retail store, tearing off part of the roof and breaking water lines to the building's sprinkler system. Power was also knocked out to about 2,000 customers.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindNorth Las Vegas$50,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Las Vegas$2,000Multiple large trees were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindNorth Las Vegas-Recorded at North Las Vegas airport (VGT).
July 2006Thunderstorm WindNorth Las Vegas-Recorded before the equipment was destroyed.
October 2005Flash FloodNorth Las Vegas-Curb-to-curb flooding at the intersection of Nellis and Tropicana.
August 1998Flash FloodNorth Las Vegas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hoover City (historical)0.9 miles25
Las Vegas2.0 miles25
Vegas Heights2.1 miles25
Stewart (historical)2.4 miles25
Wann2.4 miles25
Sunrise Manor2.5 miles25
Bonanza Village2.8 miles25
Eastland Heights3.8 miles25

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on North Las VegasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q143782The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 847435. 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.