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Las Vegas City Hall in downtown Las Vegas. The city of Las Vegas has a council–manager government. The mayor sits as a council member-at-large and presides over all city council meetings. If the mayor cannot preside over a City Council meeting, then the Mayor Pro-Tem is the presiding officer of the meeting until the Mayor returns to his/her seat.
The largest municipality by population in Nevada is Las Vegas with 641,903 residents, and the smallest is Caliente with 990 residents. [1] The largest municipality by land area is Boulder City , which spans 208.52 sq mi (540.1 km 2 ), while Lovelock is the smallest at 0.85 sq mi (2.2 km 2 ). [ 2 ]
Nevada State University's 509-acre site is located at the base of the McCullough mountain range in the southeastern corner of Henderson. [31] The site was conveyed from the Bureau of Land Management to the city of Henderson in November 2002 as part of the Clark County Conservation of Public Lands and Natural Resources Act of 2002.
Carolyn Goodman (née Goldmark; born March 25, 1939) is an American politician who has served as mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada, since 2011. [1] She is the second female mayor of Las Vegas and is married to former mayor and attorney Oscar Goodman. [1] She is the founder, president and trustee emerita of The Meadows School.
The first reported non-Native American visitor to the Las Vegas Valley was the Mexican scout Rafael Rivera in 1829.[9] [10] [11] Las Vegas was named by Mexicans in the Antonio Armijo party, [4] including Rivera, who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated two combined statistical areas, three metropolitan statistical areas, and five micropolitan statistical areas in Nevada. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Las Vegas-Henderson, NV CSA , comprising the area around Nevada's largest city, Las Vegas .
City of Las Vegas: Technical details; Floor count: 7 [1] Floor area: 310,000 square feet (29,000 m 2) Design and construction; Developer: Forest City Enterprises [1] Structural engineer: DeSimone Consulting Engineers: Main contractor: Whiting-Turner [1] Other information; Parking: 47 spaces [1] Website; Las Vegas City Official Website City Hall
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about 4.2 mi (6.8 km) long, [1] and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, but is often referred to simply as "Las Vegas".