With the consolidation, the city limits today extend west across the Sierra Nevada to the California state line in the middle of Lake Tahoe.

* Lake Tahoe – Nevada State Park

Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge.

This line begins in Lake Tahoe nearly offshore ( in the direction of the boundary ), and continues to the Colorado River where the Nevada, California, and Arizona boundaries merge southwest of the Laughlin Bridge.

Obsidian flows which may be hiked on are found within the calderas of Newberry Volcano and Medicine Lake Volcano in the Cascade Range of western North America, and at Inyo Craters east of the Sierra Nevada in California.

Bono died on January 5, 1998 of injuries sustained when he hit a tree while skiing on the Nevada side of Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California.

In 2008 and 2009, wolverines were sighted as far south as the Sierra Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, for the first time since 1922.

Between Echo, Utah and Wells, Nevada, Interstate 80 passes through the larger Salt Lake City and passes along the south shore of the Great Salt Lake.

From Salt Lake City it generally followed the Central Nevada Route blazed by Captain James H. Simpson of the Corps of Topographical Engineers in 1859.

It crossed the Great Basin, the Utah-Nevada Desert, and the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe before arriving in Sacramento.

Sediments located below the ash layer hint that Mono Lake could be a remnant of a larger and older lake that once covered a large part of Nevada and Utah, which would put it among the oldest lakes in North America.

Approximately 1, 500 years ago, the area was settled by the Owens Valley Paiute, who ranged across the Owens Valley from Long Valley on the north to Owens Lake on the south, and from the crest of the Sierra Nevada on the west to the Inyo Mountains on the east.

These include: Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico ; Lake Ouachita, Lake Norfork, Beaver Lake ( Arkansas ) and Lake Hamilton in Arkansas ; Lake Powell, Lake Pleasant, and Lake Havasu in Arizona ; Castaic Lake, Lake George in Florida, Pyramid Lake, Silverwood Lake, Diamond Valley Lake, East Fork State Park Lake near Cincinnati Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama, Lake Cumberland, and Lake Murray in California ; Lake Lanier in Georgia ; Watts Bar Lake, Tennessee ; and Lake Mead, Nevada ; Lake Texoma, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Whitney, Possum Kingdom Lake, and Lake Buchanan in Texas ; Raystown Lake in Pennsylvania ; and in Virginia Smith Mountain Lake.

* Lola Montez has a lake named after her in the Tahoe National Forest in Nevada County, California.

It also contains redwood forests, along with the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta ( the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range after Mount Rainier in Washington ), and the northern half of the Central Valley, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.

** Sierra Nevada Southern Route: U. S. Route 50 westward around Lake Tahoe and over Echo Summit and the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento.

* Tahoe Area Rapid Transit, operated by Placer County, has a route connecting Truckee with Lake Tahoe and the state of Nevada.

Truckee Tahoe Airport is a general aviation airport in Truckee, partially in Nevada County and partially in Placer County.

Stretching from Carson Valley and running up into the Sierra Nevada, the county is bordered on the west by California, and contains about 13. 2 % of Lake Tahoe, which is split across the two states.

During his expeditions in the Sierra Nevada, Frémont became the first American to see Lake Tahoe.

Cameron Park is a community located in the Northern California Gold Country of the Sierra Nevada foothills, approximately < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 30 miles ( 50 km )</ span > east of Sacramento and < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 70 miles ( 110 km )</ span > west of South Lake Tahoe.

Nevada City serves as a base for recreation in the nearby Tahoe National Forest, South Yuba River and High Sierra.

Nevada City is just 45 minutes from Donner Summit area skiing and 60 – 90 minutes from Lake Tahoe ski areas.

Needles High School, due to its distance from other California schools, is a member of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, along with four other similarly placed California schools: Truckee, North Tahoe, South Tahoe, and Coleville.

South Lake Tahoe is the most populous city in El Dorado County, California, United States, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

As its name suggests it is located on the southern shore of Lake Tahoe, right next to the Nevada border and the town of Stateline, Nevada.

Lady Luck arrived at the Lake and unpacked her bags in 1944, when Harvey's Wagon Wheel Saloon and Gambling Hall opened as one of the area's first gaming establishments ( technically on the Nevada side of the state border in the South Lake Tahoe ( Nevada gaming area ).

`` It's a whole lot easier '', he said, `` to increase the population of Nevada, than it is to increase the population of New York city ''.

In sixteen states, the fiscal year ending of the cities ( June 30 ) is the same as that of the state: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii ).

Young Larson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Larson, 5847 SW Nevada Ct., Portland.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

* 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.

Areas of southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado form a loose northern boundary, while the southern edge is defined by the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in Arizona and the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande in New Mexico.

It is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States, 83 miles ( 133 km ) north-northwest of Las Vegas.

Its area of 1, 284, 000 square kilometers is roughly equal to the combined areas of Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

Ward is also said to have inspired Mark Twain when Ward performed in Virginia City, Nevada.

Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, is an independent city and the capital of the state of Nevada.

Western Nevada College ( WNC ) is a regionally accredited, two year and four year institution which is part of the Nevada System of Higher Education.

Ecuador is one of the smaller countries in South America, slightly smaller than the U. S. state of Nevada.

* 1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot " Wasp " is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1. 2 kilotons.

* The Luxor, a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States is unusual due to its pyramidal structure.

This is caused by the north winds coming from the high tips of Sierra Nevada.

It is landlocked, surrounded by the states of Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

* 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when, in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.

* 1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.

Nevada () is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States.

Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 35th most populous, and the 9th least densely populated of the 50 United States.

Nevada is largely desert and semiarid, with much of it located within the Great Basin.