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"Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" Sign, The

Built in 1959 (Googie). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign is a Las Vegas landmark funded in May 1959 and erected soon after by Western Neon. The sign was designed by Betty Willis at the request of Ted Rogich, a local salesman, who sold it to the government of Clark County in Nevada.”
Wikipedia article Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 2009 · category: Object · built in 1959, Googie, by Betty Willis.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Las Vegas Blvd., in public right of way, approx. .5 mi. S. of intersection with Russell Rd., Paradise Township, 89119
When was it listed? May 2009
Category. object
Census division. Clark
When was it built? 1959
Architectural style. Googie
Architect. Betty Willis
National Register reference number. 09000284 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" Sign, The between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	14
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
1 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	CCFD 9 SUNSET PARK
14 August 2016	Fireworks	under an acre	Clark County Fire Department	CLRX 76
4 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clark County Fire Department	CLRX 62
4 July 2016	Fireworks	under an acre	Clark County Fire Department	CLRX 61
12 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Clark County Fire Department	CCFD 8 - SUNSET
29 June 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Southern Nevada District Office	SHELL
29 June 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	CAMPER
14 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clark County Fire Department	CLRX 41

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" Sign, The: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	White Rock 5 Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Little Church of the West	0.6 miles	1992
John S. Park Historic District	5.0 miles	2003
Huntridge Theater	5.6 miles	1993
Jay Dayton Smith House	5.6 miles	1987
Railroad Cottage Historic District	5.7 miles	1987
Las Vegas High School Neighborhood Historic District	5.8 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000284 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark County	All 48 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.