Reno, Nevada "Reno"
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Reno, Nevada City of Reno Reno in October 2008 Reno in October 2008 Flag of Reno, Nevada Location of Reno in Washoe County, Nevada Location of Reno in Washoe County, Nevada Reno is positioned in the US Reno - Reno Reno Major State Routes Nevada 341.svg Nevada 430.svg Nevada 431.svg Nevada 647.svg Nevada 659.svg Airports Reno Stead Airport Reno Tahoe International Airport Reno is a town/city in the U.S.
Known as "The Biggest Little City in the World", Reno is famous for its casinos and as the place of birth of Harrah's Entertainment (now known as Caesars Entertainment Corporation).
The town/city sits in a high desert at the foot of the Sierra Nevada and its downtown region (along with Sparks) is situated in a valley informally known as the Truckee Meadows.
Reno is the most crowded Nevada town/city outside of Clark County and the Las Vegas Paradise, NV MSA valley region, with an estimated populace of 241,445 in 2015, and is the third most crowded city in the state after Las Vegas and Henderson.
Reno is part of the Reno Sparks urbane area, which consists of all of both Washoe and Storey counties and has a 2016 estimated populace of 457,667, making it the second biggest urbane region in Nevada.
5.2 Reno in media See also: List of Registered Historic Places in Washoe County, Nevada and Timeline of Reno, Nevada Archaeological finds place the easterly border for the prehistoric Martis citizens in the Reno area. The Overland Limited at Reno in 1913 Once the barns station was established, the town of Reno officially came into being on May 9, 1868. CPRR assembly superintendent Charles Crocker titled the improve after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War at the Battle of South Mountain.
In 1871, Reno became the governmental center of county of the newly period Washoe County, replacing the previous county seat, positioned in Washoe City.
The extension of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad to Reno in 1872 provided a boost to the new city's economy.
In the following decades, Reno continued to expanded and prosper as a company and agricultural center and became the principal settlement on the transcontinental barns between Sacramento and Salt Lake City. As the quarrying boom waned early in the 20th century, Nevada's centers of political and company activeness shifted to the non-mining communities, especially Reno and Las Vegas, and today the former quarrying metropolises stand as little more than ghost towns.
The "Reno Arch" was erected on Virginia Street in 1926 to promote the upcoming Transcontinental Highways Exposition of 1927.
After the exposition, the Reno City Council decided to keep the arch as a permanent downtown gateway, and Mayor E.E.
Roberts asked the people of Reno to suggest a slogan for the arch.
Burns of Sacramento was declared the winner on March 14, 1929, with "Reno, The Biggest Little City in the World". Reno took a leap when the state of Nevada legalized open-gambling on March 19, 1931, along with the passage of even more liberal divorce laws than places like Hot Springs, Arkansas, offered.
Ernie Pyle once wrote in one of his columns, "All the citizens you saw on the streets in Reno were obviously there to get divorces." Among others, the Belgian-French writer Georges Simenon, at the time living in the U.S., came to Reno in 1950 in order to divorce his first wife. File:Downtown Reno 1955.ogv Downtown Reno, 1955 The divorce company eventually died as the other states fell in line by passing their own laws easing the requirements for divorce, but gambling continued as a primary Reno industry.
While gaming pioneers like "Pappy" and Harold Smith of Harold's Club and Bill Harrah of the soon-to-dominate Harrah's casino set up shop in the 1930s, the war years of the 1940s cemented Reno as the place to play for two decades. Beginning in the 1950s, the need for economic diversification beyond gaming fueled a boss for more lenient company taxation. In the 1980s, Indian gaming rules were relaxed, and starting in 2000, Californian Native casinos began to cut into casino revenues. Major new assembly projects have been instead of in the Reno and Sparks areas.
A several new luxury communities were recently assembled in Truckee, California, approximately 28 miles (45 km) west of Reno on Interstate 80.
Reno also is an outside recreation destination, due to its close adjacency to the Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and various ski resorts in the region. In more recent years, the town/city has attained some notoriety as the subject of the comedy series Reno 911! On May 9, 2014, the Reno Historical App was released in conjunction with the city's celebration of its 111th birthday as an incorporated city.
The no-charge app puts Reno's history at users' fingertips, allowing them to explore the citizens , places and moments that have shaped both the city's and the university's history.
The Truckee River serves as Reno's major source of drinking water.
It supplies Reno with 80 million U.S.
Before the water goes to the homes around the Reno area, it must go to one of two water treatment plants, Chalk Bluff or Glendale Water Treatment Plant.
As an attempt to save water, golf courses in Reno have been using treated effluent water freshwater treated water from one of Reno's water plants.
Local agencies working with the Environmental Protection Agency have advanced a number of watershed management strategies to accommodate this period effluent discharge; to accomplish this prosperous outcome, the DSSAM Model was advanced and calibrated for the Truckee River in order to analyze the most cost-effective available management strategy set. The resulting management strategies encompassed a package of measures such as territory use controls in the Lake Tahoe basin, urban runoff controls in Reno and Sparks, and best management practices for wastewater discharge.
Reno Nevada and the Truckee Meadows south west of the Reno Tahoe International Airport has a large herd of Mustang horses.
The Mustang is a notable iconic image of the Nevada range territory which includes Reno.
The Reno region is incessantly subject to wildfires, causing property damage and sometimes loss of life.
In August 1960, the Donner Ridge fire resulted in a loss of electricity to the town/city for four days. In November 2011, arcing from powerlines caused a fire in Caughlin in southwest Reno that finished 26 homes and killed one older man, and only two months later in January 2012 another fire in Washoe Drive sparked by fireplace ashes finished 29 homes and killed one older woman.
The fires came at the end of Reno's longest recorded dry spell. See also: Reno earthquakes of 2008 Dog Valley, west of Reno, an region of active faulting Reno is situated just east of the Sierra Nevada on the edge of the Great Basin at an altitude of about 4,400 feet (1,300 m) above sea level.
The earthquakes were centered on the Somersett improve in Reno near the areas of Mogul and Verdi.
Reno sits in the precipitation shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Even with this low amount of rainfall per year, Reno features a steppe climate (Koppen: BSk) due to its low evapotranspiration.
Snowfall varies with the lowest amounts (roughly 19 23 inches annually) at the lowest part of the valley at and east of the Reno Tahoe International Airport at 4,404 feet (1,342 m), while the foothills of the Carson Range to the west ranging from 4,700 to 5,600 feet (1,400 to 1,700 m) in altitude just a several miles west of downtown can receive up to two to three times as much annual snowfall.
The easterly side of town and the mountain peaks east of Reno tend to be apt to thunderstorms more often, and these storms may be harsh because an afternoon downslope west wind, called a "Washoe Zephyr", can precarious in the Sierra Nevada, causing air to be pulled down in the Sierra Nevada and Reno, destroying or preventing thunderstorms, but the same wind can push air upwards against the Virginia Range and other mountain peaks east of Reno, creating powerful thunderstorms. Climate data for Reno, Nevada (Reno-Tahoe Int'l), 1981 2010 normal, extremes 1893 present Map of ethnic distribution in Reno, 2010 U.S.
Reno lies 26 miles (42 km) north of the Nevada state capital, Carson City, and 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lake Tahoe in a shrub-steppe surrounding.
Reno shares its easterly border with the town/city of Sparks and is the larger of the principal metros/cities of the Reno Sparks, Nevada Metropolitan Travel Destination (MSA), a urbane region that covers Storey and Washoe counties. The MSA had a combined populace of 425,417 at the 2010 census. The MSA is combined with the Fernley Micropolitan Travel Destination to form the Reno-Sparks-Fernley Combined Statistical Area, which had a total populace of 477,397 at the 2010 census. Downtown Reno, including the city's famous arch over Virginia Street Silver Legacy Hotel with Downtown Reno in the background A panorama of downtown Reno in 2012 Before the late 1950s, Reno was the gambling capital of the United States, but in the last twenty years Las Vegas' rapid growth, American Airlines' 2000 buyout of Reno Air, and the expansion of Native American gaming in California have reduced its business.
Because of its location, Reno has traditionally drawn the majority of its California tourists and gamblers from the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, while Las Vegas has historically served more tourists from Southern California and the Phoenix area.
The Peppermill was chosen as the most outstanding Reno gaming/hotel property by Casino Player and Nevada magazines.
In 2005, the Peppermill Reno began a $300 million Tuscan-themed expansion.
In an accomplishment to bring more tourism to the area, Reno holds a several affairs throughout the year, most of which have been extremely successful.
They include Hot August Nights (a classic car convention), Street Vibrations (a motorcycle fan gathering and rally), The Great Reno Balloon Race, a Cinco de Mayo celebration, bowling tournaments (held in the National Bowling Stadium), and the Reno Air Races.
Reno is the locale of the corporate command posts for various companies, including Braeburn Capital, Hamilton, EE Technologies, and Port of Subs.
International Game Technology, Bally Technologies and Game - Tech have evolution and manufacturing existence in Reno.
According to Reno's 2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 2 University of Nevada, Reno 4,250 5 Peppermill Reno 2,250 8 Silver Legacy Reno 2,250 Nevada Museum of Art,the only American Alliance of Museums (AAM) accredited art exhibition in the state of Nevada.
Reno Philharmonic Orchestra Reno Pops Orchestra University of Nevada, Reno Arboretum Washoe County Library System has locations throughout Reno and its encircling communities.
Reno in media Movies filmed in Reno include: Music videos filmed in Reno include: American songwriter Richard Farina composed a song titled Reno Nevada; it was first released on Richard & Mimi Farina's debut album Celebrations For A Grey Day in 1965.
Thomas Dolby composed a song titled "Road to Reno" as part of his A Map of the Floating City album, released in 2011. Reno Aces PCL Baseball Greater Nevada Field 2009 2 (2006, 2012) Reno Bighorns NBA D-League Basketball Reno Events Center 2008 0 Reno 1868 FC USL Soccer Greater Nevada Field 2015 0 Reno Events Center Reno is home to the Reno Aces, the minor league baseball Triple-A partner of the Arizona Diamondbacks, playing in Greater Nevada Field, a downtown ballpark opened in 2009.
Reno has hosted multiple experienced baseball squads in the past, most under the Reno Silver Sox name.
The Reno Astros, a former professional, unaffiliated baseball team, played at Moana Stadium until 2009.
In basketball, the Reno Bighorns, who joined the NBA Development League in 2008, play at the Reno Events Center. They are an partner of the Sacramento Kings.
Reno is host to both amateur and experienced combat sporting affairs such as different martial arts and boxing.
Jeffries was held in Reno in 1910. Boxer Ray Mancini fought four of his last five fights in Reno against Bobby Chacon, Livingstone Bramble, Hector Camacho, and Greg Haugen. The Reno Barons, an autonomous experienced indoor football team, played at the Reno Events Center in 2011.
Reno expected to be the future home of an ECHL ice hockey team, titled the Reno Raiders, but assembly on a suitable arena never began.
The charter was dormant since 1998, when it was titled the Reno Rage, and earlier the Reno Renegades, and played in the now-defunct West Coast Hockey League (WCHL).
In 2016, Reno was removed from the ECHL's Future Markets page.
The Reno Tahoe Open is northern Nevada's only PGA Tour event, held at Montr ux Golf & Country Club in Reno.
Reno has a college sports scene, with the Nevada Wolf Pack appearing in football bowl games and an Associated Press Top Ten ranking in basketball in 2007.
Reno Whitewater Festival at the whitewater park in Reno In 2004, the town/city instead of a $1.5 million whitewater park on the Truckee River in downtown Reno which hosts whitewater affairs throughout the year.
Reno is home to two roller derby teams, the Battle Born Derby Demons and the Reno Roller Girls. The Battle Born Derby Demons compete on flat tracks locally and nationally.
Reno is the home of the National Bowling Stadium, which hosts the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Open Championships every three years.
Reno is home to a range of recreation activities including both cyclic and year-round.
In the summer, Reno locals can be found near three primary bodies of water: Lake Tahoe, the Truckee River, and Pyramid Lake.
The Truckee River originates at Lake Tahoe and flows west to east through the center of downtown Reno before terminating at Pyramid Lake to the north.
There are 18 ski resorts (8 primary resorts) positioned as close as 11 miles (18 km) and as far as 98 miles (158 km) from the Reno Tahoe International Airport, including Northstar California, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Alpine Meadows, Squaw Valley, Sugar Bowl, Diamond Peak, Heavenly Mountain, and Mount Rose.
Other prominent Reno winter activities include snowshoeing, ice skating, and snowmobiling.
T6s line up for the 2014 Reno Air Races The Reno Air Races, also known as the National Championship Air Races, are held each September at the Reno Stead Airport. Reno has a democratic municipal government.
Five of these council citizens represent districts of Reno, and are vetted in the major by the people of each district.
The city's charter calls for a council-manager form of government, meaning that the council appoints only two positions, the town/city manager, who implements and enforces the policies and programs the council approves, and the town/city clerk.
In 2010, there was a ballot question asking whether the Reno town/city government and the Washoe County government should explore the idea of becoming one combined governmental body. Fifty-four percent of voters allowed of the ballot measure to make an inquiry into consolidating the governments. The town/city of Reno is protected by the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District (TMFPD) manning 14 fire stations. The TMFPD operates a fire apparatus fleet of 20 engines, 5 trucks, 2 rescue units, 2 hazardous material units, various support units, 2 technical rescue support units, 15 brush units, 3 water tenders, and 3 water rescue entry vehicles. An older picture showing part of the University of Nevada, Reno ground in the foreground The University of Nevada, Reno is the earliest college in the state of Nevada and Nevada System of Higher Education.
In 1886, the state university, previously only a college preliminary school, moved from Elko in remote northeastern Nevada to a site north of downtown Reno, where it became a full-fledged state college.
University of Phoenix Northern Nevada Campus is positioned in south Reno.
The college faculty is a compilation business and academic professionals from the small-town Reno area.
The Nevada School of Law at Old College in Reno was the first law school established in the state of Nevada.
Reno has twelve enhance high schools: Damonte Ranch, Galena, Hug, North Valleys High School, Mc - Queen, Academy of Arts, Careers, and Technology (AACT), Reno, Truckee Meadows Community College High School, Washoe, and Wooster.
There are three enhance high schools in neighboring Sparks, attended by many students who live in Reno: Reed, Spanish Springs, and Sparks High School.
Reno has many charter schools, which include Academy for Career Education, serving grades 10 12, opened 2002; Alpine Academy Charter High School, serving grades 9 12, opened 2009; Bailey Charter Elementary School, serving grades K-6, opened 2001; Davidson Academy, serving grades 6 12, opened 2006; High Desert Montessori School, serving grades Pre - K-7, opened 2002; I Can Do Anything Charter School, serving grades 9 12, opened 2000; Rainshadow Community Charter High School, serving grades 9 12, opened 2003; Sierra Nevada Academy Charter School, serving grades Pre - K-8, opened 1999; and TEAM A (Together Everyone Achieves More Academy), serving grades 9 12, opened 2004. Reno has a several private elementary schools such as Legacy Christian School, Excel Christian School, Lamplight Christian School, Coral Academy of Science, and Nevada Sage Waldorf School as well as private high schools, the biggest of which are Bishop Manogue High School and Sage Ridge School. Reno Skyline in June 2006 I-80 in Downtown Reno Reno Skyline in September 2014 Reno was historically served by the Victory Highway and a branch of the Lincoln Highway.
Route 40 was routed along 4th Street through downtown Reno, before being replaced by Interstate 80.
The major north-south highway through Reno is U.S.
The Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County (RTC) has a bus fitness that provides intracity buses, intercity buses to Carson City, and an on-demand shuttle service for disabled persons. The bus fitness has its chief terminal on 4th Street in downtown Reno and secondary terminals in Sparks and at Meadowood Mall in south Reno.
Numerous shuttle and excursion services are offered connecting the Reno Tahoe International Airport to various destinations: Reno was historically a stopover along the First Transcontinental Railroad; the undivided Overland Route continues to run through Reno.
Reno was historically the southern end of the Nevada California Oregon Railway (NCO) and the northern end of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad.
Using the NCO depot and right of way, the Western Pacific Railroad historically provided rail service to Reno.
In the early 20th century, Reno also had a modest streetcar system.
Downtown Reno has two historic train depots, the inactive Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad Depot and the still active Amtrak depot, originally assembled by the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Amtrak provides daily passenger service to Reno via the California Zephyr and multiple Amtrak Thruway Motorcoaches connecting to trains departing from Sacramento.
The town/city is served by Reno Tahoe International Airport, with general aviation traffic handled by Reno Stead Airport.
Reno Tahoe International Airport is the second busiest commercial airport in the state of Nevada after Mc - Carran International Airport in Las Vegas.
Reno was the core and command posts of the defunct airline Reno Air.
Potable water for the town/city of Reno is provided by the Truckee Meadows Water Authority.
The Chalk Bluff plant's chief intakes are west of Reno in Verdi, with the water flowing through a series of flumes and ditches to the plant itself.
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