Reno, Nevada

Reno, Nevada Reno is the third most populous city (after Las Vegas and Henderson, Nevada Henderson) in Nevada and the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada Washoe County. Known as "The Biggest Little City in the World", Reno is located about 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Lake Tahoe. Quotes Moisture laden winds from the Pacific Ocean deposit their rain and snow upon the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains and upon their summits. Immediately east of the mountains, the valleys, however rich the soil, are covered with sagebrush and appear like barren deserts except where some stream overflows its banks and creates natural meadows, or where the land has been cleared and irrigated.The geographical situation of the town of Reno is as follows: It is located in latitude 39 deg. 30 min., longitude 119 deg. 39 min. at an elevation of 4497 feet. It is in the western portion of the Truckee River Truckee meadows near the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada mountains which rise abruptly west and southwest of the city. It is in the beginning of the sagebrush desert country which extends east of Reno to Utah. The city is therefore located well within the Rain shadow rain-shadow of the Sierra. Samuel Bradford Doten, An Account of Some Features of the Climate of Reno, Nevada Bulletin No. 59 University of Nevada, Agricultural Experiment Station https://books.google.com/books?id=RkwnAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP11 5 (21 pages) Reno, Nevada, 2012. Lisa, who worked with me at a wealth management firm, had invited me to tag along to her friend's birthday party weekend. I didn't know the birthday girl or her friends, but I was not the type to turn down a road trip to Reno. Come Friday afternoon, we tore out of San Francisco in Lisa's '96 Kia Spectra. Two hundred and twenty miles, a couple'a Monster Energy tallboys, and an armful of gas station snacks later, we were saddled up at the bar of the Nugget Casino Resort, ready to spend the next forty-eight hours dancing with the devil. Amanda Holden, How to Be a Rich Old Lady: Your Guide to Easy Investing, Building Wealth, and Creating the Wild, Beautiful Life You Want Simon and Schuster 2026 9781668066942 Introduction https://books.google.com/books?id=X0sMEQAAQBAJ&pg=PP9 iv–xviii (quote from p. iv; 336 pages) Dan Shoemaker came to Reno from Buffalo, New York, in 1917. He purchased the Owl Club on Commercial Row shortly after arriving in town. When gaming became legal in 1931, Shoemaker's Owl Club was issued the first gaming license in Reno. Dwayne Kling, The Rise of the Biggest Little City: An Encyclopedic History of Reno Gaming, 1931-1981 Gambling studies series University of Nevada Press 2000 9780874173406 https://books.google.com/books?id=HlQEAQAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=shoemaker 150 (226 pages) Reno is located in far-west central Nevada in the lee of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Reno is on the boundary between two distinct climatic regimes. The first regime is the dry high desert climate of the western Great Basin. The second regime is that of the alpine Sierra Nevada. Both regimes greatly influence Reno's climate. As a result of its location in the high desert of the Great Basin, Reno experiences large temperature ranges on both a diurnal and an annual scale. During the summer afternoon highs are often above 90º F, but at night the air mass can cool down into the 50s. In the last five or six years however, nighttime lows during July and early August sometimes do not make it below 65º F. Brian F. O'Hara, Climate of Reno, Nevada October 2006 NOAA technical memorandum NWS WR 276 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/14097 External links Category:Cities in the United States Category:Nevada