Nevada

Some counties do not have public transport at all, for example Eureka County. See also Memphis Mafia. There are also bus services in Reno/Sparks, and from there to Carson City.
. McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas is one of the busiest airports in the United States. Other. Las Vegas has a bus network, and a monorail system that is being extended. Military.

Greyhound Lines also provides some bus services. Sports Figures. Amtrak provides bus services from Las Vegas to Needles, California and Los Angeles ([2] (http://www.amtrak.com/timetable/oct04/P03.pdf)). Jurists, Politicians and Activists. [1] (http://www.amtrak.com/timetable/oct04/P05.pdf) Burlington Northern Santa Fe has trackage rights to the Union Pacific lines in the north. Businesspeople. Amtrak's California Zephyr uses one of the northern branches in a daily service from Chicago to Emeryville, CA serving Elko, Winnemucca, Sparks, and Reno. Actors, Directors and Musicians.

Union Pacific Railroad has some railroads in the north and in the south (map (http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/usguide/usa-nv-m.shtml)). Other museums in the area include:. However, American versions are usually smaller, in part because they must ascend and descend some fairly steep mountain passes. Along with the legendary Stax Sound, the museum also spotlights the music of Muscle Shoals, Motown, Hi and Atlantic. The state is one of just a few in the country that allow semi-trailer combinations with three trailers—what might be called a "road train" in Australia. The museum is home to a broad collection of artifacts, photographs, exhibits, commentary, and music. There are also 189 Nevada State Highways. Also, there is the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.

Nevada also is served by several federal highways: US-6, US-50, US-93, US-95 and US-395. The Children's Museum of Memphis features many interactive exhibits, including a simulated grocery store, a wood skyscraper maze, and full-scale models of a fire truck and an airplane fuselage. It has a spur route, I-580. A smaller art museum, the Dixion Gallery and Gardens focuses on impressionism and has several works by Monet, Degas and Renoir. Interstate 80 crosses through the northern part of Nevada, reaching from Utah in the east and passing westward through Reno and into California. The Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park, founded in 1916, serves as the region's major art museum. It has spur routes I-215 and I-515. was assassinated.

Interstate 15 passes through the southern tip of the state, serving Las Vegas and other communities. Memphis is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, located in the former Lorraine Motel, where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Ranked by per capita income. A month long festival, Memphis in May, is held each year to host the city's largest events like the Beale Street Music Festival, the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest and the Sunset Symphony. Area 51 is supposedly located in Groom Lake, near Nellis Air Force Base. There are several art galleries in Memphis, including, most prominently, the Dixon Gallery. Nevada is also the home of Area 51, the top-secret installation the Government has always denied existed. Opera Memphis, the region's opera company, performs at the Clark Opera Memphis Center in East Memphis.

The largest city is Las Vegas. Ballet Memphis, which is the region's only major ballet company, performs at The Orpheum Theatre. The three largest Protestant denominations in Nevada are: Baptist (8% of the total state population), Methodist (6%), Lutheran (6%). The Memphis area is home to many of West Tennessee's larger arts and culutral organizations, such as the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, which performs at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Memphis. The religious affiliations of the citizens of Nevada are:. Carnival salutes various aspects of Memphis and its industries, and is reigned over by the current year's secretly selected King & Queen of Carnival. Females made up approximately 50.7% of the population. Carnival Memphis (formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival), is a series of parties and festivities staged every year by the Carnival Memphis Association and its member krewes (similar to that of Mardi Gras) during the early summer.

6.8% of its population were reported as under 5, 26.3% under 18, and 13.6% were 65 or older. Jude Classic, a PGA Tour golf tournament. The 5 largest ancestry groups in Nevada are: German (14.1%), Irish (11%), English (10.1%), Italian (6.6%), American (4.8%). Also part of Memphis in May is the FedEx St. The racial makeup of the state is:. Each year, the city honors a foreign country, and each weekend hosts a special event, including the World Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest and the Beale Street Music Festival. According to the Census Bureau, as of 2003, the population of Nevada was 2,241,154. The Mid-South Fair comes to the city every fall, and every May there is the Memphis in May.

Nevada is the only state with legalized prostitution: see prostitution in Nevada. There is Libertyland Amusement Park and the adjacent Liberty Bowl and Memphis Children's Museum, Mud Island, Detour Memphis - an art and performing space, Lichterman Nature Center, the Pink Palace Museum, The Pyramid, The Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Queen riverboat. Large, luxurious casinos in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno attract visitors from around the world. King used to play his guitar, and occasionally still appears at a club bearing his name and partly owned by him. It is well-known for gambling and nightlife. Blues fans can head down to Beale Street, where a young B.B. Its industrial outputs are tourism, mining, machinery, printing and publishing, food processing, and electric equipment. Other famous musicians who got their start at Sun include Johnny Cash, Rufus Thomas, Charlie Rich, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Its agricultural outputs are cattle, hay, dairy products, and potatoes. Rock and roll is located in the city also. Per capital personal income in 2003 was $31,910, 19^th in the nation. Sun studios was where Elvis first recorded "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that Nevada's total state product in 2003 was $88 billion. Tourists come from all over the world to see Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. See also list of mountain ranges of Nevada.
. Out of the total population, 30.1% of those under the age of 18 and 15.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

The northern and central portions of Nevada are mostly within the Great Basin Desert, while portions of the southern tip are within the Mojave Desert. 20.6% of the population and 17.2% of families are below the poverty line. Nevada is a land of rugged, snow-capped mountains, grassy valleys and sandy deserts. The per capita income for the city is $17,838. It is in a mountain region that includes semiarid grasslands and sandy deserts, and is the most arid (dry) state in the nation. Males have a median income of $31,236 versus $25,183 for females. The border with Arizona includes the Colorado River and Hoover Dam. The median income for a household in the city is $32,285, and the median income for a family is $37,767.

Nevada has borders with Oregon and Idaho to the north, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast and Utah to the east. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.9 males. Heterosexuals only have to be 14 while homosexuals must be at least 21. For every 100 females there are 89.8 males. Nevada is currently the only state that has different ages of consent for homosexuals and heterosexuals. The median age is 32 years. Most people outside the state are not familiar with this rivalry. In the city the population is spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older.

This has fostered resentment as the north sees the south as a potential bully of majority rule and the south sees the north as the "old guard" trying to rule as an oligarchy. The average household size is 2.52 and the average family size is 3.18. The north has long maintained control of key positions in the state government even while the Las Vegas area is many times larger than Washoe County. 30.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. Due to the tremendous growth of Las Vegas in recent years, there is a noticeable divide between politics of Northern Nevada and Southern Nevada. There are 250,721 households out of which 31.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.1% are married couples living together, 23.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% are non-families. senators are Harry Reid (Democrat) and John Ensign (Republican). 2.97% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Nevada's two U.S. The racial makeup of the city is 34.41% White, 61.41% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.46% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.45% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. Nevada's capital is Carson City and its governor is Kenny Guinn (Republican). There are 271,552 housing units at an average density of 375.4/km˛ (972.2/mi˛). A fictional history (with a great deal of fact) titled Nevada was written by Clint McCullough. The population density is 898.6/km˛ (2,327.4/mi˛). At the time, the leading proponents of gambling expected that it would be a short term fix until the state's economic base widened to include less cyclical industries, however re-outlawing gambling has never been seriously considered since. As of the census² of 2000, there are 650,100 people, 250,721 households, and 158,455 families residing in the city.

Due to a sharp decline in mining output in the 1920s and the decline of the agricultural sector during the Great Depression, Nevada re-legalized gambling in 1931. Slightly over 80% of office space in the city is occupied. Gambling was common in the early Nevada mining towns, but was outlawed in 1909 as part of a nation-wide anti-gaming crusade. Memphis as a whole contains about twenty million square feet (2,000,000 m˛) of office space, with the downtown area containing only around four million square feet (400,000 m˛). The deficiencies in the Homestead Act as applied to Nevada were probably due to a lack of understanding of the Nevada environment, although some firebrands (so-called "Sagebrush Rebels") maintain that it was due to pressure from mining interests to keep land out of the hands of common folk. Memphis' Division of Light, Gas and Water ("MLGW") is one of the largest municipal utitilites in the United States. Instead, early settlers would homestead land surrounding a water source, and then graze livestock on the adjacent public land, which is useless for agriculture without access to water (this pattern of ranching still prevails). Because of its status as the primary hub for FedEx, Memphis International Airport is currently the world's busiest cargo airport in terms of tonnage.

The primary reason for this is that homesteads were not permitted in large enough sizes to be viable in the arid conditions that prevail throughout Nevada. It is also the headquarters of FedEx shipping. Despite Nevada being the third oldest western state, it is referred to as the "Permanent Colony" as over 87% of the land is owned by the Federal Government. Memphis is a center of manufacture of textiles, heating equipment, pianos, and automobile and truck parts. Congress. Public transportation in the Memphis area is provided by the Memphis Area Transit Authority (http://www.matatransit.com), which provides the area with buses and a downtown trolley system that is also in the process of expanding into a regional system. This deal will require the permission of both the Nevada and Utah legislatures and the U.S. The future interstates of I-22 and I-69 are also planned to converge into the Memphis area.

Negotiations are currently underway for Nevada to annex Wendover, Utah, which would be merged with West Wendover, Nevada. The interstates of I-40 and I-55 (along with rail lines) cross the Mississippi at Memphis into the state of Arkansas. This area includes most of what is now Clark County, Nevada. Interstate highways I-40, its spur highway I-240 and I-55 are the main freeways in the Memphis area. The transfer was prompted by the discovery of gold in the area, and it was thought that Nevada would be better able to oversee the expected population boom. The Memphis metopolitan area encompasses the counties of Fayette, Tipton, and Shelby in Tennessee, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica in Mississippi, and Crittenden in Arkansas. Nevada achieved its current boundaries on May 5, 1866 when it absorbed the portion of Pah-Ute County in the Arizona Territory west of the Colorado River. Census.

As Nevada's mining-based economy tied it to the more industrialized Union, it was viewed as politically reliable (as opposed to the more agrarian and Confederate-sympathizing California). The Memphis metropolitan area has a populuation of 1,195,977, according to the 2000 U.S. Statehood was rushed through despite Nevada's tiny population to help ensure Abraham Lincoln's reelection and post-Civil War Republican dominance in congress. Memphis is the primary city of a metropolitan region including parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. On October 31, 1864, just eight days prior to the presidential election, Nevada became the 36th state in the union. Major Memphis parks include Tom Lee Park, Audubon Park, Overton Park and the Memphis Botanic Garden. On March 2, 1861, Nevada separated from the Utah territory and adopted its current name, shortened from Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy range"). The total area is 5.24% water.

This discovery brought a flood of miners, prospectors, merchants and others hoping to strike it rich. 723.4 km˛ (279.3 mi˛) of it is land and 40.0 km˛ (15.4 mi˛) of it is water. 1859 saw the discovery of the Comstock Lode, a rich outcropping of gold and silver, and Virginia City sprang up. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 763.4 km˛ (294.8 mi˛). In 1850, the US Congress established the Utah territory which included the present day states of Utah, Idaho and Nevada. Memphis is located at 35°7'3" North, 89°58'16" West (35.117365, -89.971068)¹. Several United States Navy ships have been named USS Nevada in honor of the state. See also: List of mayors of Memphis.

(Residents often regard the pronunciation as a test of whether visitors such as presidential candidates, have informed themselves about the state.). There has been in recent years the idea thrown around of the potential of the merger of county government of Shelby County and City of Memphis into a metropolitan government similar to that in Nashville. Despite the name's derivation from the Spanish word nevada meaning "snowy", the local pronunciation of the state's name is not "Ne-vah-da"; the middle syllable has a short a sound as in cat or hat. Herenton served for 12 years as the superintendent of Memphis City Schools. The phrase "Battle Born" is on the state flag; "The Battle Born State" is the official state slogan, as Nevada was admitted into the union during the American Civil War. Prior to his election, Dr. The state song is "Home Means Nevada" by Bertha Rafetto. He was elected for the first time in 1991, when he became Memphis' first black mayor.

Nevada's nickname is "The Silver State" and the state's motto is "All for Our Country". Herenton is currently serving his fourth consecutive term as Mayor. Between 1990 and 2000, Nevada's population increased 66.3%, while the USA's population increased 13.1%. Dr. Between 2000 and 2003, Nevada's population increased 12.2%, while the USA's population increased 3.3%. Herenton. Nevada is the fastest growing state in the country. W.

The population as of July 2004 was estimated to be 2,334,771, up nearly 17% from the 2000 census figure of 1,998,257. W. Nevada is a state located in the western United States. The current mayor of Memphis is Dr. Brandon Flowers vocalist of Indie rock band, The Killers. This plan provides for nine districts, seven with one representative each and two districts with three representatives each. Barry Zito Major League Baseball player. In 1995, the council adopted a new district plan which changed council positions to all districts.

Steve Wynn casino owner. The new city charter provided for the election of a mayor and thirteen council members, six elected at large from throughout the city and seven elected from geographic districts. Edna Purviance actress. Since 1966, Memphis has been governed by the "weak mayor" form of mayor-council government. Harry Reid Senate Minority Leader. "Boss" Crump. Pat Nixon First Lady. H.

Greg Maddux Major League Baseball player. From the 1910s to the 1950s, Memphis was a hotbed of machine politics under the direction of E. Robert Laxalt writer. In 1897, Memphis' pyramid-shaped pavilion was a conspicuous part of the Tennessee Centennial exposition. Paul Laxalt politician. A yellow fever epidemic in 1870 greatly reduced the population for many years thereafter. Jack Kramer tennis player. At the conclusion of the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862 during the American Civil War, Union forces captured Memphis from Confederate control.

Jenna Jameson adult film actress. The city was founded in 1819 and incorporated as a city in 1826. Michael Chang tennis player. The French built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity. Walter van Tilburg Clark writer. The Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, is believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area. Andre Agassi tennis player. Memphis was settled by the Chickasaw tribe.

Las Vegas Wranglers, East Coast Hockey League.
. Las Vegas 51s, minor league baseball. Memphis is on the Lower Chickasaw Bluff above the Mississippi River, at the mouth of the Wolf River. Las Vegas Gladiators, Arena Football League. King. Western Nevada Community College. B.

Truckee Meadows Community College. Memphis was home to Elvis Presley and is home to B. Great Basin College. The city is particularly known for blues music and barbecue. Community College of Southern Nevada. (This makes Memphis the largest city but second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed by Metropolitan Nashville). Nevada State College at Henderson. The greater Memphis metropolitan area had a population of 1,195,977.

University of Nevada, Reno. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 650,100 within the city limits, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, United States. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, of which it is the county seat. University and Community College System of Nevada