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U.S. Route 395 (US 395) is an 85-mile-long (137 km) United States Numbered Highway near Lake Tahoe in the state of Nevada.It traverses the state after entering from California in Topaz Lake and crosses back into California near Hallelujah Junction.
[5] [6] The community would be located south of the Las Vegas Strip at the southern end of the Las Vegas Valley. The property was bordered by Cactus Avenue to the north, Jones Boulevard to the west, Interstate 15 and St. Rose Parkway to the east, and Larson Lane to the south.
Winchester is an unincorporated town [2] and census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Nevada, United States that contains part of the Las Vegas Strip.It is one of a number of CDPs in the unincorporated urbanized area directly south of Las Vegas.
Harry Reid International Airport (IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS) is an international airport serving the Las Vegas Valley, a metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located five miles (8 km; 4 nmi) south of downtown Las Vegas in the unincorporated area of Paradise and covers 2,800 acres (4.4 sq mi; 11.3 km 2 ) of land.
The lake bed made an ideal strip for testing aircraft, and the Emigrant Valley's mountain ranges and the NTS perimeter protected the site from visitors; it was about 100 mi (160 km) north of Las Vegas. [31] The CIA asked the AEC to acquire the land, designated "Area 51" on the map, and to add it to the Nevada Test Site. [9]: 56–57
The community is named after the Amargosa River which flows through the valley from its origination in Nevada to its terminus in Death Valley, California.Like most desert rivers, the 200-mile (320 km) long Amargosa flows on the surface only when rare rainfalls flood the desert washes, except for a 20-mile (32 km) segment near Shoshone, California, where the river flows perennially.
Yermo's ZIP Code is 92398, and it is in telephone area codes 442 and 760. Its USPS branch provides post office boxes to local residents and businesses; there is no letter-carrier service. Yermo hosts the 1,859-acre (7.5 km 2) storage and industrial annex of the Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow.
Within the city limits, it ran along Fifth Street (now Las Vegas Boulevard) through downtown and into North Las Vegas, where it departed from 5th at Main Street. Exiting the Las Vegas area to the northeast, US 91 became the Salt Lake Highway and then headed toward Apex and Glendale .