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Las Vegas, Nevada real estate, the city of casinos, conventions and “The Entertainment Capital of the World,” is located in central Clark County at the southeastern tip of the state. A constant flow of new residents continues to move into Las Vegas, Nevada existing homes or resale homes, enticed by nearly 350 days of sunshine each year, no state or business taxes and low unemployment. Searching Las Vegas, Nevada MLS resale listings is almost effortless on NewHomesRealEstate.net because we have volumes of comprehensive listings of Las Vegas, Nevada existing homes for sale, from mansions to investment properties to condominiums to townhouses.

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Las Vegas, Nevada Area Demographics

Las Vegas, Nevada real estate is famous as the center of legalized gambling in the U.S., but the “The Entertainment Capital of the World,” is also becoming well-known as one of the fastest-growing places anywhere in the country, where new residents arrive to pursue the city’s fabulous opportunities in employment and enjoy low taxes, gourmet dining, excellent shopping and glorious weather. The city’s glamorous image has made it a popular setting for films and television programs.

Las Vegas (2005 U.S. census population estimate: 545,147), would be much larger if not for Paradise (population: 193,713), an unincorporated community that encompasses most of the four-and-one-half-mile “Las Vegas Strip” area of casinos and hotels. (Most visitors to “The Strip” do not know they are not within the Las Vegas city limits when they are in Paradise.)

The city’s population figures do not include visitors to Las Vegas, about 35 million in 2005, according to an estimate by the local tourism board. Las Vegas has more than 130,000 hotel and motel rooms, including condominium-hotel rooms — with thousands more on the way. On any given day, there can be as many as 100,000 or more people actually in Las Vegas than the official population.

Las Vegas is the county seat and situated near the geographic center of Clark County, the southernmost county in Nevada, which covers 8,091 square miles, slightly smaller in area than New Jersey, but larger than Connecticut and Delaware combined. Clark County was the fastest-growing county in the U.S. in the 1990s and is now home to 1,710,551 residents (2005 U.S. census estimate), about 71 percent of the entire state’s population, and an increase of about 335,000 people (24 percent) since the 2000 census and nearly four times its 1980 population of 463,087.

Other large cities in Clark County are: Henderson (population: 249,800), 15 miles southeast of central Las Vegas, which was recently the fastest-growing large city in the U.S., according to the U.S. Census Bureau; and North Las Vegas, which has a population of 176,635. Other notable cities and towns in Clark County are: Winchester (population: 35,587), which includes part of the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip; Boulder City (population: 15,177), 11 miles southeast of Henderson; Mesquite (population: 16,180), which sits on the Nevada-Arizona border about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas; and Laughlin (population: 7,076), which lies at the extreme southern tip of the county on Lake Mohave and the Colorado River and is the third-most-visited casino destination in Nevada after Las Vegas and Reno. In addition, a handful of large unincorporated townships add to the Las Vegas metropolitan area population: Sunrise Manor Township (population: 188,519), just northeast of the Las Vegas city limits; Spring Valley Township (population: 167,115), just southwest of the city limits; and Enterprise Township (population: 96,404), just east of Paradise.

Clark County also includes half a dozen federal lands: Creech Air Force Base; Nellis Air Force Base; Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest; Lake Mead National Recreation Area; Spring Mountains National Recreation Area; and Mount Charleston Wilderness Area.

Las Vegas contains the largest ethnic Hawaiian community outside of Hawaii as well as the nation’s largest Mormon community outside Utah.

Temperatures at Las Vegas range from an average high in summer of 107 degrees to average low in winter of 60 degrees. The all-time high was 121 degrees in 1972 and the all-time low was zero degrees in 1963. Annual precipitation is slightly more than four inches.

Las Vegas, Nevada History and Culture

Las Vegas, Nevada real estate was a desolate area with about 1,000 residents in the entire county area just 100 years ago. The growth of Las Vegas and Clark County is phenomenal, as the population has approximately doubled every decade since Montana Sen. William Clark — for whom the county is named — bought the 2,000-acre Stewart Ranch in 1902.

Native American Indian tribes, including the Anasazi and Paiute, occupied area lands for thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers. Today, the Moapa River Indian Reservation covers about 72,000 acres about 50 miles northeast of downtown Las Vegas, while a much smaller reservation is located within the Las Vegas city limits. Both are homes for the Paiute tribe.

Mexican scout Rafael Rivera discovered artesian wells in the area in 1829 and named it “Las Vegas,” which translates from Spanish to English as “the meadows” or “the grasslands.” In 1855, Mormon leader Brigham Young assigned 30 missionaries to convert the native Paiute population. The Mormons built a fort near the current downtown area, serving as a stopover for travelers along the “Mormon Corridor” between Salt Lake, Utah and San Bernardino, California.

Nevada was admitted to the U.S. in 1864, but was home only to Indians and prospectors at the time. In order to supply local silver mining operations, Las Vegas was established as a railroad town in 1905, when William Clark’s San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City Railroad auctioned off 110 acres of land. Las Vegas was part of Lincoln County until 1909 when it became part of the newly established Clark County. Las Vegas became an incorporated city in 1911.

Las Vegas languished for another 20 years until the Boulder Dam (now the Hoover Dam) was built on the Colorado River 30 miles east of Las Vegas from 1931-36, contributing to population growth and a jump in tourism and creating recreational opportunities.

Gambling was originally banned in Nevada, but it was legalized in 1931. The El Rancho Vegas became the first casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in 1941. Gangster Ben “Bugsy” Siegel opened another early casino-hotel, the Flamingo, in 1946. In the post-World War II boom, Las Vegas’ proximity to Los Angeles quickly helped the city attract singers, dancers, musicians and comedians to headline the casinos’ entertainment. The International Hotel (now the Las Vegas Hilton) opened in 1969 with more than 1,500 rooms, then the largest hotel in the world. In 1973, the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino (now Bally’s) opened with more than 2,000 rooms, becoming the world’s largest hotel. The opening of The Mirage in 1989 established a new level of the Las Vegas experience, as smaller hotels and casinos made way for the larger mega-resorts, which offer entertainment and dining options as well as gambling and lodging all under one roof.

Today, 17 of the largest 20 hotels in the U.S. are in Las Vegas, many of them with exotic themes. In recent years, dining, shopping and nightclubbing in Las Vegas have become industries unto themselves, separate from gambling. While the Las Vegas Strip has exploded in growth and popularity, it has drawn people away from downtown until recently, as city leaders have actively sought to revitalize downtown with projects such as the Fremont Street Experience, Neonopolis, Union Park and World Market Center, with mixed results. City leaders note that every new hotel room creates four new jobs. The famed Stardust Casino closed in late 2006 to make room for Echelon, a mega-resort complex with 10,000 rooms.

New condominium and hotel high-rise projects have caused the entire Las Vegas skyline to change dramatically in recent years. Many large projects are planned for downtown Las Vegas as well as the Strip, including the largest privately-financed development proposed in the U.S. — the $7 billion Project CityCenter, a 66-acre mega-resort with high-rise condominiums. City leaders anticipate that high-rise condominium development will transform the downtown strip area into a “City within a city,”creating a vibrant urban center that will change the demographics of the “Strip”: by adding residential elements to tourist areas.

Las Vegas, Nevada Attractions, Activities and Amenities

Las Vegas, Nevada real estate offers round-the-clock entertainment with non-stop neon glitz and nurtures dreams of striking it rich. But as the county’s explosion in population and tourism attests, people are drawn to Las Vegas for more than just the gaming tables.

In a city that is constantly remaking itself, residents and visitors alike can always find a new outlet and strive to change their luck for the better. The major attractions in Las Vegas are definitely the casinos and resorts, but the county offers so much more, including: museums and attractions unrelated to the casinos; Broadway-style production shows, performance arts (dance, film, music and theater) and specialty shows; sports and recreation; and world-class shopping and specialty districts. Las Vegas has already established itself as a major furniture retailer and has aspirations of becoming the nation’s leader.

Major casinos include:

Additional Attractions and Museums include:

Production shows, which change from place to place, include:

Special events held each year in Las Vegas and Clark County include:

Clark County contains 37 golf courses as well as dozens of opportunities for tennis, racquetball, horseback riding, running, hiking, swimming and other water sports, as well as winter sports in season. Spectator sports include: auto racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway; boxing, including world championship title fights; professional billiards; professional rodeo; minor-league baseball with the Las Vegas 51s, a Los Angeles Dodgers affiliate; UNLV basketball; and arena football (the 2006 Arena championship game was held in Las Vegas). And of course, betting on almost any sports event is always available.

For those willing to venture outside the Las Vegas city limits yet stay inside Clark County, there are many options.

The Hoover Dam, which impounds Lake Mead about 30 miles east of Las Vegas, stands 726 feet high and is a truly a mad-made wonder. Visitors can learn about the dam’s construction and how its creation allowed for farming in the desert as well as inspect its eight massive generators.

Lake Mead National Recreation Area, which extends about 140 miles along Clark County’s eastern border from the edge of Grand Canyon National Park south to Laughlin, covers 1.5 million acres, including Lake Mead and Lake Mohave. The area is home to a wide variety of plants and animals, including bighorn sheep, coyotes, foxes, bobcats, mule deer, desert tortoise, peregrine falcon, lizards and snakes. Anglers will find bass (both largemouth and striped), catfish and rainbow trout plentiful. Swimming, boating and waterskiing are also popular.

The Lost City Museum of Archeology, near Overton at the north end of Lake Mead, features replicas of pueblo-style houses while preserving and interpreting the pre-European history of the county. Nearby Valley of Fire State Park occupies a basin with jagged sandstone walls that appear to be on fire when reflecting the sun’s rays.

Further south, at the southern tip of the county and state, is Laughlin, where the Davis Dam impounds Lake Mohave. Laughlin, the third-most-popular gambling destination in Nevada, is a vacation destination popular with people who seek recreation on the water and is home to the annual Laughlin River Run, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle event held each April that attracts more than 50,000 riders and is billed as the largest biker event in the West. The Laughlin River Stampede, also each April, has become one of the premier events on the ProRodeo circuit. A ferry operates across the Colorado River between Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona.

Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area, a 196,000-acre preserve just west of Las Vegas, contains scenic geological formations, such as Keystone Thrust Fault, which reveals the contrast in the sedimentary rocks between the gray limestone and red sandstone as well as Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, a scenic location at the base of Wilson Cliffs once owned by Howard Hughes. Hiking and picnicking are popular throughout Red Rock Canyon. Beautiful desert areas surround the Las Vegas area.

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