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Mountain Monograms, a website explaining the origins and with an incomplete list and pictures; Hillside Letters, a companion website to a book on the subject; Letters on Hills, a category on waymarking.com for geocachers; Nevada's Hillside Letters, a Google map showing most hillside letters in Nevada
Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
Downtown Reno, including the city's famous arch over Virginia Street Silver Legacy Hotel with Downtown Reno in the background Reno skyline in June 2006 Reno skyline in September 2014 Until the 1960s, Reno was the gambling capital of the United States, but Las Vegas's rapid growth, American Airlines ' 2000 buyout of Reno Air and the growth of ...
Antelope Range (White Pine County) Ararat Hills; Arrow Canyon Range; Augusta Mountains; Badger Mountains; Bare Mountain (Nevada) Barnett Hills; Battle Mountains; Belted Range; Bilk Creek Mountains; Bird Spring Range; Black Canyon Range; Black Mountains (Nevada) Black Rock Range; Bloody Run Hills; Blow Sand Mountains; Blue Wing Mountains; Bodie ...
The racial makeup of the county was 80.4% White, 2.1% Black or African American, 1.8% Native American, 4.3% Asian, 0.5% Pacific Islander, 7.7% from other races, and 3.3% from two or more races. 16.6% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
It has served as a hub for Reno's African American community since it was built in 1910 for early black settlers. [2] In addition to its role as a religious and community center, it functioned as a resource center for black divorce seekers who faced difficulties in a segregated city during the middle decades of the twentieth century. [ 3 ]
Of the most prominent summits of Nevada, Charleston Peak and Wheeler Peak exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet) of topographic prominence, eight peaks are ultra-prominent summits with more than 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence, and the following 52 peaks exceed 1400 meters (4593 feet).
The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe ecoregion) of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa 100 miles (160 km) north of Reno, Nevada, that encompasses more than 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of land and contains more than 120 miles (200 km) of historic ...