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2. Nevada - Wikipedia

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   The tourism industry remains Nevada's largest employer, [15] with mining continuing as a substantial sector of the economy: Nevada is the fourth-largest producer of gold in the world. [16] Nevada is the driest state, and over time, and influenced by climate change , droughts in Nevada have been increasing in frequency and severity, [ 17 ...

3. Great Basin National Park - Wikipedia

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   Great Basin National Park. Great Basin National Park is a national park of the United States located in White Pine County in east-central Nevada, near the Utah border, established in 1986. The park is most commonly entered by way of Nevada State Route 488, which is connected to U.S. Routes 6 and 50 by Nevada State Route 487 via the small town ...

4. Carson City, Nevada - Wikipedia

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   Carson City, Nevada. Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City [3], is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. [4] As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the 6th most populous city in the state. The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern ...

5. Ponderosa Ranch - Wikipedia

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   Ponderosa Ranch. Coordinates: 39.233531°N 119.929743°W. The Ponderosa Ranch was a theme park based on the television western Bonanza, which housed the land, timber and livestock-rich Cartwright family. The amusement park operated in Incline Village, Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, from 1968 until 2004. Portions of the last five seasons of the TV ...

6. List of National Historic Landmarks in Nevada - Wikipedia

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   Pershing. Discovered in 1936, this is an archaeological site that shows settlement from 6700 BC up to 1400 AD. 5. McKeen Motor Car #70 (Virginia & Truckee Railway Motor Car #22) McKeen Motor Car #70 (Virginia & Truckee Railway Motor Car #22) October 16, 2012[5] (#05000968) Carson City.

7. Winnemucca Lake - Wikipedia

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   Winnemucca Lake is a dry lake bed in northwest Nevada that features the oldest known petroglyphs in North America. Located astride the border between Washoe and Pershing counties, [1] it was a shallow lake until the 1930s, but was dried when a dam and a road were built that combined to restrict and block water flow. It was formerly designated ...