Nevada Day

Nevada Day is being released on Nevaday Day 2006 (October 31st). It would like to visit all 50 states but is free to travel wherever cachers want to take it. It is intended to give people a little information about our state. Please do not take this coin if you cannot move it along quickly.

When is Nevada Day? Nevada became a state (admitted to the Union) October 31, 1864, so Nevada Day is October 31st.of each year.

Nevada Day is presently a state holiday recognized on the last Friday in October with the parade on the Saturday following. Here are some other interesting facts about Nevada.........

Bugsy Siegel named his Las Vegas casino "The Flamingo" for the long legs of his showgirl sweetheart, Virginia Hill.

In 1899 Charles Fey invented a slot machine named the Liberty Bell. The device became the model for all slots to follow.

There were 16,067 slots in Nevada in 1960. In 1999 Nevada had 205,726 slot machines, one for every 10 residents.



In Tonopah the young Jack Dempsey was once the bartender and the bouncer at the still popular Mispah Hotel and Casino. Famous lawman and folk hero Wyatt Earp once kept the peace in the town.

Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park is constructed around the fossilized remains of ancient, mysterious reptiles within a well-preserved turn-of-the-century Nevada mining camp.
The ichthyosaur is Nevada's official state fossil.

Nevada takes its name from a Spanish word meaning snow-clad.

Nevada is the seventh largest state with 110,540 square miles, 85% of them federally owned including the secret Area 51 near the little town of Rachel.

Nevada is the largest gold-producing state in the nation. It is second in the world behind South Africa.

Nevada's smallest incorporated city is Gabbs located about 140 miles southeast of Reno.Update: {Gabbs, what was Nevada's smallest city was disincorporated on May 8, 2001}.

To drive from Los Angeles, California to Reno, Nevada the direction traveled is to the west.

Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than any other place on earth.
Las Vegas has the majority of the largest hotels in the world. More information can be found at (visit link) or (visit link)