* Western Nevada College

The Northern Pacific Division consists of Alaska, Northern California, Idaho, Western Montana, Northern Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

* Intermountain: based in Ogden, Utah, the Intermountain Region ( R4 ) covers four states ( Southern Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Western Wyoming ), twelve national forests.

* Western Poison oak ( Toxicodendron diversilobum or Rhus diversiloba ) is found throughout much of western North America, ranging from the Pacific coast into the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges between southern British Columbia and southward into Baja California.

On August 18, 2010, amidst rumors that Brigham Young was considering leaving the Mountain West to go independent in football and rejoin the Western Athletic Conference in all other sports, the Mountain West Conference officially extended invitations to California State University, Fresno and the University of Nevada, Reno.

Portola is a crew change site on the Western Pacific Railroad ( now Union Pacific Railroad ) Feather River Route over the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The Douglas campus of the Western Nevada College is located in Minden.

Descendents of the Western Shoshone and the Northern Paiute occupy the Duck Valley Indian Reservation of Idaho and Nevada.

Although the base was not assigned to Air Defense Command, the attached 29th Air Division was activated at Great Falls AFB in early 1950, bringing with them command and control authority of fighter interceptor squadrons, an aircraft control and warning squadron, and ground observer detachments in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado as part of the Air Defense Command Western Air Defense Force.

* Great Western Divide, a long ridge in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains

* Ninth Corps Area, headquartered at the Presidio of San Francisco, California, replaced the Western Department and included Alaska, Idaho, Montana, California, Wyoming, Washington, Utah, Nevada and Oregon.

At the close of the war, Lt. Burnside served two years on the western frontier, serving under Captain Braxton Bragg in the 3rd U. S. Artillery, a light artillery unit that had been converted to cavalry duty, protecting the Western mail routes through Nevada to California.

The Great Basin Desert is defined as the desert lands in Nevada, Western Utah, as well as Southeastern Oregon and Southern Idaho.

It is located in all or parts of Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona in the Western United States ; and Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and other states southwards to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in Mexico.

The Pacific Coast Ranges are part of the North American Cordillera ( sometimes known as the Western Cordillera, or in Canada, as the Pacific Cordillera and / or the Canadian Cordillera ), which includes the Rocky Mountains, Columbia Mountains, Interior Mountains, the Interior Plateau, Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Great Basin mountain ranges, and other ranges and various plateaus and basins.

* Thelypodium howellii ( Howell's thelypody ), a rare plant of the Western U. S., endemic to a small area on the borders of Oregon, California and Nevada

Thomas Bros. building in Irvine Thomas Guide is the title of a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States, in the metro areas of Boise, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, and Washington, D. C. Road Atlas titles are Arizona including Las Vegas, California Including portions of Nevada, and Pacific Northwest covering Washington, Oregon, Western Idaho, Southwestern British Columbia.

Pinus albicaulis, known commonly as Whitebark Pine, Pitch Pine, Scrub Pine, and Creeping Pine occurs in the mountains of the Western United States and Canada, specifically the subalpine areas of the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Range, the Pacific Coast Ranges, and the northern Rocky Mountains – including the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Western tanagers were observed on an Arizona site 8, 270 feet ( 2, 520 m ) in elevation and on a site at 9, 500 feet ( 2, 900 m ) in Nevada.

Western White Pine, Pinus monticola in the family Pinaceae, is a species of pine that occurs in the mountains of the western United States and Canada, specifically the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Range, the Coast Range, and the northern Rocky Mountains.

In November 1907 St. John was shot in Goldfield, Nevada by a " conservative " in the Western Federation of Miners.

The route runs through mostly rural desert and mountains in the Western United States, with the section through Nevada known as " The Loneliest Road in America ".

The James Cook University Singapore, University of Adelaide, Southern Cross University University of New Brunswick, Queen Margaret University, Temple University, The City University of New York, Baruch College, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Aventis School of Management, Curtin University of Technology & University of Wales Institute, Cardiff have established offshore campuses in Singapore to provide local and foreign ( in particular, Asian ) students the opportunity to obtain a Western university education at a fraction of the cost it would take to study in Canada, the UK, the U. S. A. or Australia.

* St. John's College, U. S. is a well-known secular liberal-arts college with an undergraduate program described as " an all-required course of study based on the great books of the Western tradition.

* Mercedes College, Perth, Western Australia

The chaos of the Western Schism thus brought about reforming councils and gave them the power over who was elected, replacing ( for a time ) the College of Cardinals.

* Gellibrand College of TAFE, renamed Western Metropolitan College of TAFE.

* Western State College of Colorado in Gunnison, Colorado

* 1816 – Rammohun Roy founds Hindu College in Calcutta, offering instructions in Western languages and subjects.

* January 20 – Rammohun Roy and David Hare found Hindu College in Kolkata, offering instructions in Western languages and subjects.

Allegheny College, Case Western Reserve University ( CWRU ), Denison University, Kenyon College, Oberlin College, Ohio Wesleyan University, and The College of Wooster were charter members in 1984, the same year that NCAC athletic conference play began.

From 1851 to 1854, he attended the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute ( later named Hiram College ) in Hiram, Ohio.

Pierce College is one of the nine colleges of the Los Angeles Community College District, and is accredited through the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, a nationally recognized accrediting agency.

Pierce College currently fields 11 athletic teams, which compete in the Western State Conference.

Itō was chosen to be one of the Chōshū Five who studied at University College London in 1863, and the experience in Great Britain convinced him of the necessity of Japan adopting Western ways.

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In 2007, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians entered into a partnership with Southwestern Community College and Western Carolina University to create the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts ( OICA ), to emphasize native art and culture in traditional fine arts education, thus preserving traditional art forms and encouraging exploration of contemporary ideas.

* Trinity College, Perth, an independent, single-sex secondary school for boys in Western Australia

Kalamazoo is home to Western Michigan University ( often abbreviated as " WMU "), a large public university, and Kalamazoo College ( often referred to as " K College "), a liberal arts school whose campus abuts WMU's.

Plays and musicals are also performed at Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University.

Carter County was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( The ET & WNC, nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the line ceased operations in 1950.

Grandfather Mountain and its surrounding communities were served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( The ET & WNC, nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the flood of 1940.

* August 22-The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( ET & WNC ) commences operation over a 14. 1-mile ( 2. 25-kilometer ) run through the Appalachian Mountains.