| - Average temperature: 66.3 degrees. Average yearly rainfall:
4.13 inches (10.64 centimeters). Average daily humidity 29 percent.
211.5 clear days annually, 82.4 partly cloudy days, 71.3 cloudy
days.
- More than 965 cabs service metropolitan Las Vegas. More than
325 limousines are available.
- Capital -- Carson City.
- State colors -- Silver and blue.
- State song -- "Home Means Nevada."
- State tree -- Single-leaf Pinon.
- State bird -- Mountain Bluebird.
- State animal -- Desert Bighorn Sheep.
- State grass -- Indian Ricegrass.
- State fish -- Lahontan Cutthroat Trout.
- State fossil -- Ichthyosaur, a prehistoric marine
reptile.
- State metal -- Silver.
- State nicknames -- Silver State, Sagebrush State,
Battle-Born State.
- State flower -- Sagebrush.
McCarran is ranked
8th busiest in the world by the Airports Council in Washington, D.C.
It is 1 mile from the Strip, 3.5 miles from the Convention Center,
and 5 miles from Downtown.
Averages 980 flights a day. Direct flights to 58 U.S. cities and
1 European city.
MT. CHARLESTON -- 35 miles (56 km.) from Las Vegas,
highest elevation 11,918 feet (3,615 meters), winter skiing,
picnicking, hiking, horseback riding, tours available.
BONNIE SPRINGS OLD NEVADA -- An old western town in Red
Rock Canyon 16 miles west of Las Vegas with a motel, shops,
activities and western shootouts.
DEATH VALLEY -- 135 miles (216 km.) from Las Vegas, 40
minutes by plane, lowest elevation on North American Continent at
280 feet below sea level (84.93 meters), Zabiske Point, 20 Mule
Canyon, Scotty's Castle, tours available.
ETHEL M CHOCOLATE FACTORY -- Self-guided tours available
for factory and outside botanical garden and cactus display.
GRAND CANYON -- About 300 miles (480 km.) from Las Vegas,
1 1/2 hour flight by plane, tours available.
LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA -- Closest point 25
miles (40 km.) from Las Vegas, more than 550 miles (880 km.) of
shoreline, swimming, water skiing, camping, boating, fishing, six
marinas, tours available. Visitors totaled 3.8 million for the first
five months of 1995 and 9,913,705 in 1994.
HOOVER DAM -- 34 miles (54.4 km.) from Las Vegas, 726 feet
high (220.00 meters) from bedrock, wonder of the modern world, tours
of inside and outside of dam available; in July 1994, the 30
millionth visitor toured the dam since it opened. Visitors touring
the dam totaled 279,205 in the first five months of 1995 and 712,130
in 1994. Black Canyon River Raft Tours available below dam.
RED ROCK CANYON -- 15 miles (24 km.) west of Las Vegas,
3,000- foot (910 meters) escarpment produced by thrust fault, Bureau
of Land Management visitors center, scenic area of rock formations
and desert. Visitors totaled approximately 585,600 during the first
five months of 1995 and approximately 900,000 in all of 1994.
VALLEY OF FIRE STATE PARK -- 55 miles (88 km.) from Las
Vegas, scenic landscapes of hidden canyons and unique rock
formations, petroglyphs and remains of ancient Indian civilization,
Nevada Park Service visitors center, tours available. Visitors
totaled 66,702 in the first five months of 1995 and 244,052 in 1994.
There is a $3 entrance fee.
- There are three Indian tribes indigenous to Nevada including
the Shoshone; the Washoe, and the Paiute of which there are the
Southern Paiutes and the Northern Paiutes. There are 25 reservations
in the state encompassing 1,304,837 acres (521,934.8 hectares). Two
of the reservations, totaling 75,804 acres (30,321.6 hectares), are
in Clark County.
- Name means "the meadows" in Spanish, founded in 1905,
incorporated March 16, 1911, the city covers 84.272 square miles
(219.1 square kilometers).
- There are 1,271 gaming licenses in Clark County, 122,800 slot
machines and 3,896 live table games including poker and pan. Gaming
Control Board, June 1995
Clark County casinos won $5.8 billion in the first nine months of
2001 and $7.7 billion throughout 2000. Statewide, casinos won $2.343
billion in the first four months of 1995 and $7.1 billion in 1994.
Gaming Control Board, June 1995
The number of slot machines statewide total 176,995 and the
number of live table games statewide total 5,782. Gaming Control
Board, June 1995
- Have you ever wondered how many people work in a casino?
It varies, according to the size of the casino. Binion's
Horseshoe employs 2,600; Caesars Palace 4,000; and the MGM Grand has
a work force of 7,000 people! Twenty-seven percent of Las Vegas'
570,000 employed people work in casinos, and I think the other 73
percent work for the government.
- Fremont Street Cost: $70 million
- Nevada's population growth since 1990, in percentage 83.3
- Percent of Nevada land owned by the federal government 87
- Average nightly room rate, in dollars 66
- Number of hotel rooms 124,270
- Price for a prime acre of land on the Strip, in millions of
dollars 11
- Annual state gaming revenue, in billions of dollars 9
- Percent of Nevada's general fund fed by gaming-tax revenue 43
- Amount in miles of lighted neon tubing on the Strip and
Downtown 15,000
- State's nationwide rank in gold production 1
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