Talk:North Las Vegas, Nevada

demographics section and gangs

I just noticed the edit by 65.115.136.98 was not referenced... when I tried to look it up I couldnt find exact information as it was stated in the article. but I did find the following article that states that the San Chucos is one of the largest gangs in southern nevada... http://www.viewnews.com/2001/VIEW-Oct-24-Wed-2001/North/17248937.html I am adding a citation needed tag to it for now, so that if anyone can find a ref for what is actually said they can add it... otherwise in a day or 2 I will go ahead and rewrite it to say "one of the largest in southern nevada" and add the ref to it :) Sykko (talk) 03:29, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind, someone removed the information anyway (which I had also considered doing) Sykko (talk) 03:52, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

North Side Santos were a gang in NLV. Should gangs be covered in the article or do we leave that out? —Preceding unsigned comment added by NLV Barber (talk • contribs)

Personally I dont think they should be in the article, I feel that if a gang is covered or related that it should have it's own article that states that they are based in NLV instead. %%-SYKKO-%% (talk to me) 18:43, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Nobody talks about North Side Santos (NSS) at this time, because I think they went out with the Commodore 64 computer. Tablespent (talk) 19:19, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

City Data

I fixed the broken link today. Tablespent (talk) 19:15, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Vegas Verdes

Original name for the city was Vegas Verdes. I was taught this in 5th grade by Dave La Pointe, a Las Vegas historian. Since I don't have a citation on hand, somebody else can go through that trouble. Apple8800 (talk) 17:56, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Thunderbird Township.

Apparently there was a time when North Las Vegas expanded adding an area north of North Las Vegas (North of CC-215?) into a township called Thunderbird. This might be a good section topic. 71.49.139.3 (talk) 13:30, 25 August 2011 (UTC)Harshawj

Structure

Hi. I'm going through all the US Cities (as per List of United States cities by population) in an effort to provide some uniformity in structure. Anyone have an issue with me restructuring this article as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline. I won't be changing any content, merely the order. Occasionally, I will also move a picture just to clean up spacing issues. I've already gone through the top 20 or so on the above list, if you'd like to see how they turned out. Thoughts? Onel5969 (talk) 16:22, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Early History of North LasVegas

In 1919 Tom Williams moved his wife Lola and their three sons from Eureka, Utah to a barren 160 acre tract of land just North of Las Vegas, Nevada. He paid eight dollars an acre for the partial that would one day become the City of North Las Vegas. Williams built his family home and then divided the remaining land into 100 lots. On his own he built roads, extended power lines and sunk wells. He sold the lots for just $10 dollars down and he gave free land to anyone that was willing to build a Church.

Williams was a very fundamentally religious man, who did not believe in government, he believed that the Bible was the only law men needed, and that all men were under the laws of God and not man. He felt if he got enough Churches, and got enough God Fearing People in his new town, there would be no need for writing new laws to regulate how the people in his town would live, and no need for a police force to enforce them. He believed that all men were free to live as they see fit with no regulation under any government.

Since there were no city codes or laws of any kind the new city quickly became an safe haven for moonshiners to manufacture illegal booze. Williams did not drink, but a man of his word allowed the moonshiners to make their illegal product. Still federal agents were constantly coming to North Las Vegas in an attempt to shut the towns main industry down. The industry quickly moved underground, and in a short time the town had tunnels running from one end of the town to the other.

Williams was more interested in agriculture and he built a working irrigation system using the atesian wells that produced more than enough water to allow successful farming, even in the hot desert heat of summer.

In 1924 Williams built his second house which also housed a post office, a grocery store, campground, and civic center.

During the Great Depression thousands of unemployed and destitude people were run out of Las Vegas found refuse in North Las Vegas. A large squatter's camp grew up on the main drag of town, shacks were built from scrap lumber and mud, with the richer among them living in tents.

In 1932 North Las Vegas was run by a town board made up of local citizens, although Williams did not believe in government we did serve on the town board to make sure it did not get out of control.

The same year Williams donated land for the towns first school.

In 1939 Tom Williams suffered a stroke and died, he did not live long enough to see his township to become a City. Tom Williams was a quiet man who never gave an interview to any newspaper man. Most of what is known of the man is the result of hearsay information from people who knew him. His motto was "live and let live", and thought people should live free of government but under the laws of God. To say the least he was an hard working, honest man, who had an amazing impact on the history of Southern Nevada, however like many men of faith of that era he believed that God was white, Jesus was white, and it was the job the white race to rule over people of color, not to hurt them but to make decisions for people who did not know what was best for them. This statement is made not to degrade Tom Williams, only to inform readers of how many people felt in that era.

In 1941 World War II brought growth and new wealth to the town with the addition of Nelis Air Force Base.

In 1946 The City incorporated and officially became a City.

Into the 1960's the low income of many of the towns citizens greatly held back growth, but under the leadership of another devote man of God, Mayor James Seastrand. Seastrand of a devote Mormon who was very active in his church as well as government. He served 16 years and Mayor and is credited for bringing much needed new business the the financially strapped town.

Ironically despite major growth in the 1990's and 2000's the City is still in financial trouble do to over spending and poor city planning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GaryBou (talk • contribs) 07:07, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

No government, and utopia results? So much for good intentions. Did anyone ever quiz Williams on the result of his project?

This is great stuff, and needs to be put in the article. Sources will have to be added so that it can be, tho. Note: whether Jesus was 'white' or not depends on whether Caucasians count as 'white'. He was a Semitic Caucasian. God, of course, is above all that kind of thing 86.176.173.94 (talk) 06:44, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

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"North Town"?

After living in North Las Vegas almost my entire life, I've never heard anyone say that, and there isn't a citation for it. The only thing that I might consider a nickname for North Las Vegas is "NLV" 71.195.3.72 (talk) 15:44, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

@71.195.3.72 what part of northtown are you from? i grew up in vegas -- i've lived here since 2000, aside from about a year and a half -- and all anyone out here calls it is northtown. even people i know from the suburban parts of northtown call it northtown SwamiNetero (talk) 07:59, 8 November 2022 (UTC)