Alamo (Nevada)

37 365 - 115.16444444444Koordinaten: 37 ° 22 ' N, 115 ° 10' W

Alamo, Nevada is a small town in Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located on U.S. Route 93 and is the largest town in the Pahranagat Valley.

The site comprises farmland with a total area of 78.4 km ². 2010 Alamo had 1080 inhabitants. Thus, the population density is 14 inhabitants / km ². The main source of income is agriculture.

Alamo (Spanish for poplar) was founded in July 1901 by the four farmers Fred Allen, Mike Botts, Bert Riggs and William Stewart of Fredonia, Arizona. In 1905 the post office was inaugurated. Was named the site of the vegetated with poplar floodplain in the area.

Three kilometers west of Alamo is the Alamo Landing Field, the civilian airfield to Area 51 Approximately nearest 6.4 kilometers south of the Pahranagat Lake, Water reservoir for Alamo, popular place for anglers and waterfowl hunters and the core area is the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge, one designated by the Government reserve.

Between Rachel and Alamo is the Alamo Megabrekzie, an impact crater, which is caused by a bolide explosion in the late Devonian.