`` 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.

Chester is situated almost directly over the buried north end of the Sierra Nevada.

In 2007, a team from the IBM Almaden Research Center and the University of Nevada ran an artificial neural network almost half as complex as the brain of a mouse for the equivalent of a second ( the network was run at 1 / 10 of normal speed for 10 seconds ).

As almost three-quarters of the population of Nevada lives in a single county ( Clark County, where prostitution is illegal ), county control over local matters is a hot-button issue.

Mexico lost almost half of the northern territory gained from Spain in 1821 to the United States in the Mexican-American War ( 1846 – 1848 ): parts of contemporary Texas, and Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming, California, Nevada, and Utah.

She returned to the top of pop music in 2002 and signed a three-year ( later extended to almost five years ) contract to perform nightly in a five-star theatrical show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada.

In some jurisdictions, such as Australia, New Zealand, the American states of Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and California, a domestic partnership is almost equivalent to marriage, or to other legally recognized same-sex or different-sex unions, while in other jurisdictions such as the American states of Wisconsin and Maine, domestic partnerships may confer lesser relationship rights than other jurisdictions ' civil unions and more than de-facto cohabitation.

Hobbs, a male liger at the Sierra Safari Zoo in Reno, Nevada, lived to almost 15 years of age before succumbing to liver failure and weighed in at.

Notably, Nevada has no regulations regarding color, which is why Nevada casinos may use white, blue, or gray as $ 1, though $ 5 and greater are almost always consistently colored.

The political action committee affiliated with Amonix Solar, a Nevada solar energy firm that received $ 5. 9 million in federal economic stimulus funds only to close in 2012, gave almost half of the money it spent to Berkley.

* The Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia is in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and despite its tropical latitude is almost arid, receiving almost no rainfall for seven to eight months of the year and being incapable of cultivation without irrigation.

* The deserts of the Basin and Range Province in the United States and Mexico, which includes the dry areas east of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington and the Great Basin, which covers almost all of Nevada and parts of Utah are rain shadowed.

From Spanish Fork to Ely, Nevada, it followed a roadway that had yet to be improved in areas ; the rest of the route, from Ely to Southern California, followed the old Midland Trail, running almost north – south in California.

After almost ten years, Hearst was making a decent living as a prospector, and otherwise engaged in running a general store, mining, stock raising and farming in Nevada County.

As quoted by Robert D. McCracken in A History of Beatty, Nevada, Harris said during a 1930 interview for Westways magazine, " The rock was green, almost like turquoise, spotted with big chunks of yellow metal, and looked a lot like the back of a frog.

Robert Laxalt founded the University of Nevada Press, which published almost all of his books written after 1964.

A succession of these extend from immediately east of the Sierra Nevada, through almost all of Nevada, and into western Utah and southern Idaho.

It is also sometimes mentioned as being the highest point in South America outside of the Andes, but this is not correct either: the title belongs to Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, which is almost twice the height of Pico da Neblina and completely detached from the Andes.

The south and west faces are where you will find the majority of the almost 50 high-mountain lakes that exist in the Sierra Nevada, many of which are also the sources of streams and rivers.

The Squaw Valley Mining boom was short lived and by 1863 – 64 the valley soon lost almost all of its inhabitants to the Comstock lode in Virginia City, Nevada.

She has taught remedial reading in an inner-city school in Los Angeles, International Baccalaureate English in Reno, Nevada, and almost everything in between, including a semester helping lawyers write.

They are almost always found in pine forests, even in migration, though at the northern end of their range ( in southern Nevada and Utah and southwestern Colorado ) they occur in spruce-fir forest.