Boulder City, Nevada "Boulder City"
Boulder City, Nevada Location of Boulder City in Clark County, Nevada Location of Boulder City in Clark County, Nevada Boulder City, Nevada is positioned in the US Boulder City, Nevada - Boulder City, Nevada Boulder City is a town/city in Clark County, Nevada. It is approximately 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Las Vegas.
As of the 2010 census, the populace of Boulder City was 15,023. Boulder City is one of only two metros/cities in Nevada that prohibits gambling (the other being Panaca). The territory upon which Boulder City was established was a harsh, desert surrounding.
Its sole reason for existence was the need to home workers contracted to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River (known generally as Boulder Dam from 1933 to 1947, when it was officially retitled Hoover Dam by a joint resolution of Congress).
Plan of Boulder City by De - Boer, 1930 Boulder City was originally assembled in 1931 by the Bureau of Reclamation and Six Companies, Inc.
The sheer scale of the dam and duration of the universal required the Bureau of Reclamation to consider the assembly of a semi-permanent town clean water a temporary arrangement. Boulder City was exceptionally rare as an example of a town fully prepared under government oversight.
Boulder City, 1932 Boulder City was carefully prepared through federal oversight as a model community, with Dutch-born urban architect Saco Rienk de Boer contracted to plan it.
There were limits to the number of different types of stores allowed in the city, and all who wished to begin a company were screened for character and financial viability. On the other hand, there was no provision for schools in the burgeoning city, probably because the Bureau of Reclamation expected that single male workers would populate the town. The town made do with makeshift schoolrooms until the town/city won the right for state-funded schools to be established on the federal reservation upon which Boulder City was situated.
Injured workers had to travel 33 miles (53 km) to Las Vegas Hospital, and when a hospital was established in the city, females were not admitted for a number of years. Boulder Theatre in July 1932, the first air-conditioned building in the town/city Like early model business town Port Sunlight, the workers of Boulder City were under strict monitoring: alcohol was prohibited in the town until 1969, and gambling has been prohibited since the city's outset. Boulder Theatre, established in 1931, meant that workers were not obliged to travel to Las Vegas for amusements.
In the case of Boulder City, the prohibition of alcohol and gambling was at least partly due to the adjacency of Las Vegas, which at the time was dominantly run by mobsters.
Visitors to Boulder City were admitted by permit, and by 1932, there was a gatehouse through which all visitors had to pass. While the establishment of Boulder City occurred while Las Vegas was modest in size with approximately 5,000 inhabitants, it was effectively the beginning of the fragmentation of metros/cities in the region of Clark County.
The close-by city of Henderson, established in 1943 and based around the magnesium industry, was another early example of decentralization before Clark County had a momentous population: "...the region began to decentralize and regroup as a multi-centered region early in its history." The autonomous governments of Henderson, North Las Vegas, Las Vegas, and Boulder City have perpetuated the fragmented nature of the region, giving each town/city its individual character, as well as generally stymieing the outward expansion of these cities. The government did not relinquish control of Boulder City until 1959, when the town was incorporated.
Boulder City's incorporation ceremony took place on January 4, 1960.
The town/city charter, allowed by the residents, prohibited gambling inside the town/city limits.
This provision still exists, making Boulder City one of only two locations in Nevada where gambling is illegal (the other is the town of Panaca). The Hoover Dam Lodge hotel-casino, which has a Boulder City mailing address, is positioned on a parcel of private territory inside the boundaries of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, and is not inside town/city limits.
Another casino on the other end of town is the Railroad Pass Hotel and Casino, which has a Boulder City telephone prefix, but is inside the boundary of the neighboring town/city of Henderson.
In 2009, Money periodical ranked Boulder City 6th in its annual list of the top 25 places to retire in the United States, which was based on affordable housing, medical care, tax rates and arts and leisure. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 208.6 square miles (540.2 km2), of which 0.039 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.02%, is water. This rates Boulder City as the biggest city in Nevada by territory area and 35th in the country, but gives it a low density rate of only about 72 citizens per square mile. Boulder City maintains strict controls on growth, limited to 120 single- or multi-family residentiary building permits for new assembly per year.
These restrictions are defined in the town/city code of Boulder City. According to the Koppen climate classification system, Boulder City has a hot desert climate (Koppen type BWh) Climate data for Boulder City In the city, the populace was spread out with 20.4% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 21.3% from 25 to 44, 29.3% from 45 to 64, and 23.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Boulder City and Lake Mead, with Hoover Dam at center right.
The adjacency of Hoover Dam to Boulder City is reflected in many of the businesses in the historic Downtown district, which is home to the Boulder Dam Hotel, home of the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum.
(The hotel is titled after the dam's former name.) The Boulder City Chamber of Commerce has used the slogan "Best City By A Dam Site" in promotions, and the town/city hosts an annual festival of short subject films dubbed "The Dam Short Film Festival".
Boulder City also hosts a number of Hoover Dam related affairs such as "That Dam Guy Stole My Dam Car" car race and "Get Off My Dam Lawn" gardening festival.
In 1975, a team from Boulder City won the Almost Anything Goes nationwide championship, broadcast on ABC television.
Boulder City has two municipal golf courses (Boulder City Municipal Golf Course and Boulder Creek Golf Course), one private golf course, a town/city pool, racquetball complex, lit tennis courts, athletic fields, BMX bicycle track, sizeable mountain hiking trails, and is only a several miles away from Lake Mead.
Nevada's first airport, Boulder City Municipal Airport, is still in operation today, accommodating private planes, skydiving trips, and scenic aerial tours of Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon.
The town/city of Boulder City is a special charter municipality which operates under the council-manager form of government.
The town/city council comprises five members, including the mayor, who acts as presiding officer for town/city council meetings.
The town/city manager is appointed by the town/city council and executes the policies and directives of the town/city council.
Boulder City is one of two locations inside the State of Nevada where Military Veterans and their spouses can be interred.
The Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery is positioned in Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada.
The State of Nevada has more than 300,000 veterans and is among the quickest burgeoning region in the Western United States of citizens age 65 or older with the demographic of military veterans. the 79-acre (32 ha) cemetery is approximately 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Boulder City's four enhance schools fall under the jurisdiction of the Clark County School District.
Boulder City High School serves grades nine through twelve and has an average enrollment of 700 750 students.
Boulder City High School was one of fourteen Clark County schools to turn into a five-star school in 2012. Elton and Madeline Garrett Middle School serves grades six through eight.
The school mascot is the mustang. Boulder City is also home of one non-profit private theological elementary school, Grace Christian Academy, which offers a Christian education for grades kindergarten through five.
Boulder City also homes a small satellite ground of the College of Southern Nevada.
Until it ceased printed announcement in 2009, the Boulder City News was the small-town newspaper.
Upon cessation of the Boulder City News, Stephens Media began a new small-town journal called the Boulder City Review. Boulder City Hospital Boulder Dam Hotel (born 1953), actor musician who, with his wife, Amy, owns the Boulder Theatre, a former cinema converted into a live theatre, which is home to the Boulder City Ballet Company.
Fisher (1913 2006), inventor, politician and founder of the Fisher Spacepen Co., positioned in Boulder City.
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