Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 36600
Land area (2000): 78.510787 sq. miles (203.341997 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 78.510787 sq. miles (203.341997 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51800
Located within: Nevada (NV), FIPS 32
Location: 36.228511 N, 115.146593 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 89030 89031
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
North Las Vegas
Usage examples of "north las vegas".
About thirty minutes after our brush with the Okies we pulled into an all-night diner on the Tonopah highway, on the kirts of a mean/scag ghetto called North Las Vegas.
The workers live in slum hotels in a Mexican enclave on the West-North Las Vegas border.
She didn't have the sense to at least work in one of the North Las Vegas places, so she must be in one of the ones down by the Strip.
They were still over the outskirts of North Las Vegas, only a few minutes into the flight, when the copilot came to the rear of the passenger compartment.
The Finest Fancy Linen Service, for example, of North Las Vegas, which provides cloth products for several of the Strip hotels, ranging from room-service napkins to croupiers' pocketless trousers, was burglarized for eight freshly cleaned tan uniforms with shoulder patches and other markings to identify them as used by the security personnel at the Gaiety Hotel, BattleLake and Casino.
For a brief stretch the neon glow faded, then resumed again as they reached North Las Vegas.
It's weird, doing stuff like that over water far from home-the aircraft is based in North Las Vegas, Nevada-but it's no big deal.