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Nevada
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Nevada is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 34th most populous, nearly three-quarters of Nevadas people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area where three of the states four largest incorporated cities are located. Nevada is officially known as the Silver State because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the Battle Born State, because it achieved statehood during the Civil War, as the Sage-brush State, for the plant of the same name. Nevada borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, Nevada is largely desert and semi-arid, much of it located within the Great Basin. Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe, about 86% of the states land is managed by various jurisdictions of the U. S. federal government, both civilian and military. Before European contact, Native Americans of the Paiute, Shoshone, the first Europeans to explore the region were Spanish. They called the region Nevada because of the snow covered the mountains in winter. The area formed part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the United States annexed the area in 1848 after its victory in the Mexican–American War, and it was incorporated as part of Utah Territory in 1850. The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a boom that became an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861. Nevada became the 36th state on October 31,1864, as the second of two added to the Union during the Civil War. Nevada has a reputation for its libertarian laws, in 1940, with a population of just over 110,000 people, Nevada was by far the least-populated state, with less than half the population of the next least-populated state. However, legalized gambling and lenient marriage and divorce laws transformed Nevada into a major tourist destination in the 20th century, Nevada is the only U. S. state where prostitution is legal, though it is illegal in Clark County, Washoe County and Carson City. The tourism industry remains Nevadas largest employer, with mining continuing as a sector of the economy. The name Nevada comes from the Spanish nevada, meaning snow-covered, most Nevadans pronounce the second syllable of their state name using the vowel of trap. Many from outside the Western United States pronounce it with the vowel of father, although the latter pronunciation is closer to the Spanish pronunciation, it is not the pronunciation preferred by most Nevadans. State Assemblyman Harry Mortenson proposed a bill to recognize the alternate pronunciation of Nevada, though the bill was not supported by most legislators, the Nevadan pronunciation is the de facto official one, since it is the one used by the state legislature. Nevada is almost entirely within the Basin and Range Province, and is broken up by many mountain ranges
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Eureka, Nevada
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Eureka is a census-designated place in and the county seat of Eureka County, Nevada, United States. With a population of 610 as of the 2010 census, Eureka is by far the largest community in Eureka County, attractions include the Eureka Opera House, Raine’s Market and Wildlife Museum, the Jackson House Hotel, and the Eureka Sentinel Museum. Eureka is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area, at the 2010 census the population of Eureka CDP was 610, while the total population of Eureka and the surrounding area was 1,373. The town is located along the Lincoln Highway / U. S. Route 50, nicknamed The Loneliest Road in America, aptly named, as the nearest towns along the highway are Austin, the nearest town is Duckwater,46 mi south. The climate is typical of the Great Basin, hot and dry with cool mornings in the summer with occasional monsoonal thunderstorms from late July through August, cold and relatively dry in the winter. Temperatures drop to 0 °F or −17.8 °C or lower on an average 4.7 mornings during the winter, though in the severe winter of 1916/1917 this happened twenty-five times. They drop to 32 °F or 0 °C on an average 181.3 mornings, though maximum temperatures top freezing on all but 26.3 days during an average winter. Snow accumulations vary from 10 to 30 inches in mild winters to in excess of 80 inches in more years, in the winter of 1906/1907. The wettest calendar year has been 1941 with 23.86 inches, the snowiest month has been March 1902 with 54.0 inches or 1.37 metres of fresh snowfall. The town was first settled in 1864 by a group of prospectors from nearby Austin. The town became the county seat in 1873, when Eureka County was carved out of adjacent Lander, Elko, Mining, especially for lead, was the towns economic mainstay, as the nearby hillsides ranked as Nevadas second-richest mineral producer, behind western Nevadas Comstock Lode. Two of the largest concerns in Eureka were the Richmond Mining Company and these two companies often collided, and in one instance, their litigation reached the U. S Supreme Court. The population boomed, reaching a high of 10,000 by 1878, Eureka is served by an all-volunteer fire department, which provides fire protection, rescue, and vehicle rescue services for Eureka and the surrounding areas. In 2009 a new brick and steel fire house was built on Main Street in Eureka, at the time of its building it was the second largest fire house in the state. In addition to being a fire fighting facility, it contains a museum of Eureka fire department equipment. The fire-museum may be viewed through the glass windows, or a tour may be taken by contacting a local fireman. Eureka boasts three parks, an enclosed swimming facility, two baseball fields, a track, and football field. The 1880s Eureka Opera House was re-modeled in recent times and regularly schedules performers, the 1876 Eureka Court House is both historic and modern
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Nevada's 2nd congressional district
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Nevadas 2nd congressional district is a congressional district that includes the northern third of the state. It includes most of Lyon County, all of Churchill, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Pershing, Storey and Washoe counties, as well as the state capital, the largest city in the district is Reno, the states third largest city. Although the district appears rural, its politics are dominated by Reno, the district was initially created after the 1980 Census. From then until 2013, it occupied all of the state outside of Clark County, and it was the third-largest congressional district by land area. Population estimates indicates that the district need to be expand after the 2020 Census, as of 2015 the district is underpopulated by 15,000. A possible second district based on the 2015 population estimates encompass all of the state outside Clark County and Pahrump, historically, the 2nd has had a heavy Republican lean. Republicans have held the district since its creation, and Democrats have only made three serious bids for the seat, in presidential elections, the district has historically voted Republican, George W. Bush won the district by 20 points in 2000 and 16 points in 2004. However, in the 2008 election John McCain earned only 88 votes more than Barack Obama in the district, Republican Mark Amodei has held the seat since 2011. Senator John Ensign, plagued by scandal and facing an inquiry by the Senate Ethics Committee, on April 27, Governor Brian Sandoval announced he would appoint Dean Heller, the 2nd districts third-term congressman, to fill out Ensigns term in the Senate. Heller had already planned to run for the seat after Ensign announced a month earlier that he would not run for a third term. To fill the vacancy created by Hellers resignation on May 9, a special election was held on September 13,2011. Former Republican state senator Mark Amodei defeated Democratic State Treasurer Kate Marshall, election results from presidential races Nevadas congressional districts List of United States congressional districts Martis, Kenneth C. The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
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Elko, Nevada
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Elko is the largest city and county seat of Elko County, Nevada, United States. The population was 18,297 at the 2010 census, the city straddles the Humboldt River. Elko is the city of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is the largest city for over 130 miles in all directions, making it, as its city motto states and it is home to Great Basin College, as well as to the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office serving most of northern and central Nevada. Though Elko lies along the route of the historic California Trail, it was first inhabited only in 1868, when the railroad crews moved on, Elko remained, serving as a center for ranching, mining, rail freight and general supplies. Elko is said to have been named by Charles Crocker, a superintendent of the Central Pacific Railroad and he was especially fond of animal names and added the letter o to Elk. There is no evidence of this naming history, but it has become the widely accepted version. The first Elko County Courthouse was built in 1869, Elko was officially incorporated as a city in 1917. In 1925, the Kelly Act authorized the United States Postal Service to contract with private airlines for the routes that fed the main transcontinental route. The first commercial flight in the United States was on the 487-mile Airmail Route #5 from Pasco, Washington. The flight was piloted by Leon D. Cuddeback and included a stop in Boise, Idaho. The 1910 replacement for the courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Post Office-Elko Main, built in 1933, is also listed, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 17.6 square miles, all land, though the path of the Humboldt River fills from time to time. January is normally the coldest month of the year, with an average temperature of 25.1 °F or −3.8 °C. There are an average of 1.8 days with 100 °F highs,44 days of 90 °F or 32. Annual precipitation averages 9.89 inches or 251.2 millimetres, falling on an average of 81 days, there are normally 130 sunny days each year. The highest temperature on record is 107 °F or 41.7 °C, most recently on July 4,1981, and the lowest on record is −43 °F or −41.7 °C on January 21,1937. The most rainfall in 24 hours was 4.13 inches on August 27,1970, and the most precipitation in one month 5.71 inches – all as snow – in January 1916
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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565
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Transmission tower
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A transmission tower or power tower is a tall structure, usually a steel lattice tower, used to support an overhead power line. They are used in high-voltage AC and DC systems, and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Typical height ranges from 15 to 55 m, though the tallest are the 370 m towers of a 2,700 m span of Zhoushan Island Overhead Powerline Tie, in addition to steel, other materials may be used, including concrete and wood. There are four categories of transmission towers, suspension, terminal, tension. Some transmission towers combine these basic functions, transmission towers and their overhead power lines are often considered to be a form of visual pollution. Methods to reduce the effect include undergrounding. Transmission tower is the name for the used in the industry in the United States. This term is used infrequently in the United States, as the pylon is commonly used for many other things. Three-phase electric power systems are used for voltage and extra-high voltage AC transmission lines. The towers must be designed to carry three conductors, typically, one or two ground wires, also called guard wires, are placed on top to intercept lightning and harmlessly divert it to ground. Towers for high- and extra-high voltage are usually designed to carry two or more electric circuits, if a line is constructed using towers designed to carry several circuits, it is not necessary to install all the circuits at the time of construction. Indeed, for reasons, some transmission lines are designed for three circuits, but only two circuits are initially installed. Some high voltage circuits are often erected on the tower as 110 kV lines. Paralleling circuits of 380 kV,220 kV and 110 kV-lines on the towers is common. Sometimes, especially with 110 kV circuits, a parallel circuit carries traction lines for railway electrification, high-voltage direct current transmission lines are either monopolar or bipolar systems. With bipolar systems a conductor arrangement with one conductor on each side of the tower is used, on some schemes, the ground conductor is used as electrode line or ground return. In this case it had to be installed with insulators equipped with surge arrestors on the pylons in order to prevent electrochemical corrosion of the pylons, for single-pole HVDC transmission with ground return, towers with only one conductor can be used. In many cases, however, the towers are designed for conversion to a two-pole system
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White Pine County, Nevada
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White Pine County is a county along the central eastern boundary of the U. S. state of Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,030, the Ely Shoshone Indian Reservation is located on the south side of the city and incorporates part of it. The reservation has an area of 104.99 acres. The largely rural county is the home of Great Basin National Park, the name White Pine is an old name for the Limber Pine, a common tree in the countys mountains. In 2009, White Pine County ranked ninth in the United States for suicide rates, in 2014, the county ranked fifth for suicide, out of more than 3,100 U. S. counties. White Pine County was established by European Americans in 1869 from Lander County and named after the growth of Limber Pine trees in the area. Hamilton was the first county seat from 1869 to 1887, when it was replaced after a fire by Ely. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 8,897 square miles. Several sections of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest exist within the county, within the Snake Range, Egan Range, White Pine Range, Ruby Mountains, the county also contains Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park and Cave Lake State Park. In the southeastern part of the county within Great Basin National Park lies 13,065 ft Wheeler Peak, the tallest independent mountain within Nevada and it is also the most topographically prominent peak in the county and the second-most prominent peak in Nevada. White Pine County is home to a number of designated wilderness areas and they were created by Congress on December 20,2006, by the White Pine County Conservation, Recreation, and Development Act of 2006. About half are integral parts of Humboldt National Forest, the rest are managed by the Bureau of Land Management. One is shared between the two agencies, some extend into neighboring counties, as indicated. The population density was 1.0 people per square mile, there were 4,439 housing units at an average density of 0.50 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 86. 35% White,4. 14% Black or African American,3. 29% Native American,0. 78% Asian,0. 24% Pacific Islander,3. 09% from other races, and 2. 10% from two or more races. 10. 98% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,29. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the family size was 3.01. In the county, the population was out with 24. 2% under the age of 18,7. 6% from 18 to 24,29. 9% from 25 to 44,24. 8% from 45 to 64
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Nye County, Nevada
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Nye County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,946, at 18,159 square miles, Nye is the largest county by area in the state and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States. Nye County comprises the Pahrump, NV Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Las Vegas-Henderson, in 2010, the center of population of Nevada was located in southern Nye County, very near Yucca Mountain. The federal government manages 92 percent of the land in the county, a 1987 attempt to deposit the nuclear waste resulted in the creation of Bullfrog County, Nevada, which was dissolved two years later. Visitors to Death Valley often stay at Beatty or Amargosa Valley, Nye County is one of 11 Nevada counties where prostitution is legal. The county has no incorporated cities, the seat of government in Tonopah is 160 miles from Pahrump, where about 86 percent of the countys population resides. Nye County is nicknamed The Kingdom of Nye from the radio program Coast to Coast AM, Nye County was established during the American Civil War in 1864 and named after James W. Nye. He served as the first governor of the Nevada Territory and later as a U. S, senator after it was admitted as a state. The first county seat was Ione in 1864, followed by Belmont in 1867, the countys first boom came in the early 20th century, when Rhyolite and Tonopah, as well as Goldfield in nearby Esmeralda County, all had gold and silver mining booms. In 1906, Goldfield had 30,000 residents, Tonopah had nearly 10,000 people and these cities were linked by the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad. After the boom died, Nye County withered, by 1910, the population had plummeted to about 7,500 before sinking to near 3,000 in the middle of the century. It was not until development at the military test site, increasing employment, after the 1990s, when Pahrump became a bedroom community for Las Vegas, it had high rates of population growth. From 1987 to 1989, Bullfrog County, Nevada, was split off from Nye County territory to form a political region. The population of Bullfrog County was 0, the creation was strictly a political maneuver to support plans for a nuclear waste storage facility in the region. The Western Shoshone challenged this plan, saying they had never ceded land in this territory, no license was granted for the planned Yucca Mountain Repository. The Yomba Indian Reservation is located in county, as one designated for some of the Western Shoshone people. The Yomba Band of the reservation is a recognized tribe. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 18,199 square miles
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Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
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The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest is the principal U. S. National Forest in the U. S. state of Nevada, and has a smaller portion in Eastern California. With an area of 6,289,821 acres, it is the largest National Forest of the United States outside of Alaska. HTNF does not resemble most other National Forests in that it has fairly large but non-contiguous sections scattered about most of the state of Nevada. Its 10 ranger districts are scattered across the mountain ranges in Nevada. A part of the forest is in eastern California, in the areas around Bridgeport and Markleeville, the forest lies in 13 counties in Nevada and 6 in California. The counties with the largest amount of forest land are Nye, Elko, and White Pine in Nevada, and Mono County in California, Forest headquarters are located in Sparks, Nevada. It has about 43. 5% of the total area, there are local ranger district offices located in Ely, Elko, Wells, and Winnemucca. It has about 56. 5% of the total area, there are local ranger district offices located in Austin, Bridgeport, Carson City, Las Vegas, and Tonopah
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Interstate 80 in Nevada
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Interstate 80 traverses the northern portion of the U. S. state of Nevada. I-80 follows the routes of the California Trail, First Transcontinental Railroad. Throughout the entire state, I-80 follows the routes of the Victory Highway. The freeway corridor follows the paths of the Truckee and Humboldt Rivers and these rivers have been used as a transportation corridor since the California Gold Rush of the 1840s. I-80 enters Nevada in the canyon of the Truckee River, paralleling the California Trail, upon exiting the canyon, the freeway serves the Truckee Meadows, a name for the urban area consisting of Verdi, Reno and Sparks. The freeway passes north of Downtown Reno in a depressed alignment before intersecting Interstate 580 / U. S. Route 395, the interchange with US395 is the busiest portion, averaging 122,000 vehicles per day in 2006. The freeway passes through downtown Sparks via a viaduct over the floor of the Nugget Casino Resort. After leaving the Reno–Sparks metropolitan area the freeway resumes following the Truckee River in a canyon to Fernley, traffic volumes drop to 26,600 vehicles per day by Fernley and continue dropping to 8,400 by the time the freeway reaches the center of the state. The freeway exits the Truckee River corridor near Wadsworth, past Wadsworth, the freeway cuts across the Lahontan Valley. The Lahontan Valley is a desert, sometimes called the Forty Mile Desert. The name comes from the California Gold Rush where the emigrants who came into the Lahontan Valley via the Humboldt River. The travelers would have then to endure 40 miles without water while crossing the valley. I-80 closely approximates the path of the emigrants between the Humboldt and Truckee Rivers, per the marker, this portion was the most dreaded portion of the California Trail. For the next 246 miles, I-80 follows the Humboldt River, along the way, the freeway passes through the towns of Lovelock, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Carlin, Elko and Wells. At Winnemucca, I-80 is joined by the Feather River Route, the freeway is within visual distance of the river for most of this run. However, there are portions where the freeway bypasses bends by cutting across or tunneling under mountains along the canyon walls, between Winnemucca and Battle Mountain, the freeway bypasses bends via side canyons and Golconda Summit,5,159 feet. The highway also bypasses Palisade Canyon via Emigrant Pass 6,114 feet, just east of Carlin, I-80 passes through the Carlin Tunnel to bypass curves of the river in the Carlin Canyon. After Wells, I-80 departs the Humboldt River, First Transcontinental Railroad, from this point east, the freeway follows the routes of the Hastings Cutoff, Feather River Route, former US40 and State Route 1
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U.S. Route 50 in Nevada
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U. S. Route 50 is a transcontinental highway in the United States, stretching from West Sacramento, California, in the west to Ocean City, Maryland, on the east coast. The Nevada portion crosses the center of state and was named The Loneliest Road in America by Life magazine in July 1986, the name was intended as a pejorative, but Nevada officials seized on it as a marketing slogan. The name originates from large desolate areas traversed by the route, the highway crosses several large desert valleys separated by numerous mountain ranges towering over the valley floors, in what is known as the Basin and Range province of the Great Basin. The route was constructed over a historic corridor, first used for the Pony Express and Central Overland Route, before the formation of the U. S. Highway System, most of US50 in Nevada was designated State Route 2. The routing east of Ely has changed significantly from the original plans, the route change resulted from a rivalry between Nevada and Utah over which transcontinental route was better to serve California bound traffic, the Lincoln Highway or the Victory Highway. US50 crosses the central portion of Nevada, entering the west side of the state near Lake Tahoe, the route crosses mostly desolate terrain in the journey across the state, US50 passes through several large desert valleys and basins. The highway crosses 17 named mountain passes that break up the Nevada desert, to crest some of the passes along US50 requires navigating steep 8% grades and hairpin turns through pine forests to reach elevations of over 7,000 feet. In the stretch of highway between Fallon and Delta, Utah, a span of 409 miles, there are three towns, Austin, Eureka and Ely. This span is roughly the distance as Boston, Massachusetts to Baltimore, Maryland or Paris, France to Zürich. Traffic along US50 varies greatly, the average annual daily traffic in 2007 ranged from 52,000 vehicles per day in Carson City, to 530 vehicles per day near the Duckwater turnoff. US50 enters Nevada from California as a four lane thoroughfare on the shores of alpine Lake Tahoe in Stateline. The highway follows the shore, squeezing between the lake and the crest of the Carson Range. In one narrow spot, the cuts through the mountains via the Cave Rock Tunnel. Eventually, the route crests the Carson Range at Spooner Summit and then descends into Nevadas capital, after Carson City, US50 follows the Carson River towards the Lahontan Valley. This portion is mostly four lane, serving the commuter towns of Dayton and Silver Springs as well as passing by Fort Churchill State Historic Park. In addition to the trails of the Pony Express and Lincoln Highway, the Carson River forms the southern edge of the Forty Mile Desert. At Silver Springs, U. S. Route 50 Alternate splits from the main route, both branches are sometimes called the loneliest road, although the official designation begins with the first passport stamp available at Fernley, along the alternate branch. The two branches rejoin west of Fallon, Fallon, home to the Naval Air Station Fallon or TOPGUN, is an agricultural community along the last usable water of the Carson River
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