Trivia: Incorporated places

Clark County has five incorporated municipalities. One, obviously, is Las Vegas. Can anyone name the other four?

Bragging rights to winner. No cheating.

summerlin - west
henderson - southeast
boulder - northeast
primm - south

Quote: rudeboyoi

summerlin - west
henderson - southeast
boulder - northeast
primm - south

I would have thought that N. Las Vegas was incorporated, and also Mesquite and Laughlin. Is Primm incorporated? If so, why not Jean? And to be picky, I think it is Boulder City. How about Searchlight?


Edit 5 minutes later: I suppose that rather than rambling like that I should make my own list.

Henderson
Boulder City
Laughlin
Mesquite

That leaves N. Las Vegas and Searchlight as the two that I wonder about and omitted only because there supposedly can only be four. I also remember hearing something about Paradise being some sort of formal community.

Summerlin is not incorporated. They are a homeowners association. It's actually a pretty innovative system of private self-governance.

North Las Vegas I know is incorporated because they have their own library and police force.

Henderson is incorporated.

Boulder City must be incorporated because they don't allow gaming in their jurisdiction.

I don't know the fourth one but would guess one of Primm, Laughlin, Jean, or Mesquite. It could be none of those. If I had to choose it would be Mesquite because it is the only "real" town of those four. The rest are all casino cities.

I meant that Summerlin was a corporation. I didn't mean they were a city.

I do know the answer to this question
1) Henderson
2) North Las Vegas
3) Boulder City
4) Mesquite

All the other places have some kind of government, but are not cities. Paradise is the biggest, Winchester, Enterprise, Searchlight, Laughlin, South Summerlin, and a bunch of others that I can't think of right now.

Quote: pacomartin

I meant that Summerlin was a corporation. I didn't mean they were a city.

I do know the answer to this question
1) Henderson
2) North Las Vegas
3) Boulder City
4) Mesquite

All the other places have some kind of government, but are not cities. Paradise is the biggest, Winchester, Enterprise, Searchlight, Laughlin, South Summerlin, and a bunch of others that I can't think of right now.

Ah, time to call in the lawyers! The original question asked for "incorporated municipalities." How does that differ from "cities" in Nevada.

Paco wins the prize. As far as I'm concerned, "city" is interchangeable with "municipality." I chose not to call them cities because many people equate the word "city" with size.

Mesquite is the one that surprised me.

Quote: nyuhoosier

Paco wins the prize.

*Ahem*. Please reread my post which was six minutes before Paco's. :)

I stand corrected. Paco gets an honorable mention for putting them in order of population size.

They should combine the unincorporated parts of Clark County and the City of Las Vegas. It would reduce duplication of services and make Las Vegas a city of over a million, one of the top 10 in the country.

Quote: nyuhoosier

As far as I'm concerned, "city" is interchangeable with "municipality."

In my comment about lawyers, I was, of course, mostly just trying to be obstructionist. ;-)

When I was growing up in Virginia, there was a definite difference between cities and incorporated towns. For one thing, cities were not part of the counties by which they were surrounded. They had their own school systems and other public services that the counties provided within and outside of towns, and I don't think city residents paid county taxes. I raised the issue because paco's post seemed to be distinguishing between cities, governmental units, corporations, etc.

And while I am posting, I have a question -- I just want to be certain that I am receiving the forum correctly.

At 10:58, teddys's comment appears to be a challenge to someone's claim about Summerlin being incorporated. All I can see that to mean is that he is correcting rudeboyoi's suggestion of "summerlin - west" in response to a request for "incorporated municipalities."

But then at 11:06, pacomartin appears to be responding to teddys's comment and suggesting there was a misunderstanding about something he (paco) said earlier about Summerlin being incorporated; i.e., "I meant that Summerlin was a corporation." I don't see any earlier post at all in this thread by paco in which he might have "meant" anything.

Am I not receiving the full thread? Was there a post prior to 10:58 (missing from my copy) that makes more sense of the later exchange? Maybe there was communication by telepathy, but I just want to make sure that I am actually receiving all of the public postings. I have had this sense of confusion previously in trying to follow discussions, and I hope it is just that a jumble of postings being thrown into the stream (sometimes almost simultaneously) doesn't always lead to a coherent conversation and not that something is wrong with the way it is coming through the web to me.

Thanks.

I noticed the same thing.

I think you may have uncovered Paco's secret identity. Rudeboyoi is the rude alter ego of the mild mannered, polite pacomartin :)

Quote: teddys

I think you may have uncovered Paco's secret identity. Rudeboyoi is the rude alter ego of the mild mannered, polite pacomartin :)

And he likes to log into web forums and argue with his alter ego.

I always find it really annoying when I lose arguments with myself.

Quote: teddys

I think you may have uncovered Paco's secret identity. Rudeboyoi is the rude alter ego of the mild mannered, polite pacomartin :)

Actually, I just got lost about which thread I was answering. On a different thread someone asked about the corporate limits of Summerlin. I thought it was this thread. I see now that there is no continuity within the thread.

The previous question was about Rampart casino if it was in Summerlin or not. I said it is difficult to know where Summerlin begins or ends because it was a lot of land assembled by Howard Hughes in the 1950's. There is not a detailed map on the Summerlin web site.

Thanks, all. It now seems that there was no problem with the forum not coming through correctly -- just some minor confusion in the thread and I was foolishly trying to apply linear thought processes.