- Nevada's sate bird is the Blue Bird

- Nevada's state flower is Sagebrush you can also find it on the state flag

- Nevada's motto is "Battle Born" because it was founded in the middle of the civil war

- 87% of Nevada's land is Federal property

- Nevada was the first state to say yes to the fifteenth Amendment

- Was one of the biggest gold producers in America

- One of the driest states in the US with on average of 10inches a year

- Virginia City is one of the most haunted town in north America

- The seventh largest state

- Most of the mountain ranges are over 10,000 feet tall

- Half of the population lives in Las Vegas

- People in Nevada eat about 60,000 pounds of shrimp a day which is more than the whole country combined

- Nevada is one of the seven states that do not have lottery

- The town of Winnemuca is the sun est town in Nevada with an average of 201 sunny days

- Over 40 million people visit Las Vegas

- The first lady Patricia Ryan Nixon was from Nevada

- There are more than 30 different mountain Ranges in Nevada making it the 5th mountainous state

- The name Nevada come from the Spanish word Nevada which manes "snow clad" kinda funny for a desert

- Nevada's biggest industry is tourism

- Area 51 the UFO capital of the world

- The Hoover Dam contains more than 3.25 million cubic yards of concrete

- Nevada has the most wild horses population in the United States

- Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the US

- The highest point in Nevada is Boundary Peak at 13,147 feet

- The second highest point in Nevada is Wheeler peak at 13,065

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