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Las Vegas Life The name Las Vegas is often applied to the unincorporated areas of Clark County that surround the city, especially the resort areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip. The city is five hours drive from Los Angeles. This four and a half mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard is mostly outside the Las Vegas city limits, in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester. Las Vegas, in English means, "The Meadows" or "The Grasslands", was named by Spaniards in the Antonio Armijo party, who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas. In the eighteen hundreds, areas of the Las Vegas Valley contained artesian wells that supported extensive green areas or meadows, hence the name Las Vegas. It is believed the birthplace of Las Vegas to be the Springs Preserve John C. Frémont traveled into the Las Vegas Valley on May third, eighteen forty-four, while it was still part of Mexico. He was a leader of a group of scientists, scouts and observers for the United States Army Corps of Engineers. On May tenth, eighteen fifty-five, following annexation by the United States, Brigham Young assigned thirty Mormon missionaries led by William Bringhurst to the area to convert the Paiute Indian population. A fort was built near the current downtown area, serving as a stopover for travelers along the "Mormon Corridor" between Salt Lake and the briefly thriving Mormon colony at San Bernardino, California. Las Vegas was established as a railroad town on May fifteenth, nineteen five, when one hundred ten acres owned by Montana Senator William A. Clark's San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, was auctioned off in what is now downtown Las Vegas. Las Vegas was part of Lincoln County until nineteen nine when it became part of the newly established Clark County. Las Vegas became an incorporated city on March sixteen, nineteen eleven.
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