Henderson
— — a city the desert built second.
Not only on a wall.
“The second-largest city in Nevada, set in the southeast corner of the Las Vegas Valley with the Black Mountains rising along its southern edge. Henderson grew out of a magnesium plant the federal government opened during the war and stayed when the plant closed. Today it spreads from Green Valley into Anthem and Lake Las Vegas, master-planned and quiet by Strip standards. The Railroad Pass casino still sits on the old road to Boulder City, and the lake itself is twenty minutes east, where the Colorado River used to run.
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Henderson sits in Clark County, Nevada, sixteen miles southeast of downtown Las Vegas and about thirty miles from the Hoover Dam. The city covers roughly 270 square kilometres along the southeastern rim of the Las Vegas Valley, with an estimated population over 330,000 — the second-largest city in the state after Las Vegas. The terrain slopes from the McCullough and Black Mountains down toward Lake Mead. Major districts include Green Valley, Anthem, Seven Hills, and Lake Las Vegas. The Union Pacific main line crosses the city's western edge along the old Boulder Branch corridor.
Mojave Desert air, dry through most of the year, with summer afternoons running above 40°C and winter nights occasionally near freezing. The Black Mountains break the southerly wind on hot days, and the valley collects evening light that turns the eastern ridges pink before the sun sets behind the Spring Mountains to the west. Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area, immediately south of the Anthem master-plan, holds petroglyph fields and the dark sky stays unusually intact for a city this close to the Strip. Annual rainfall is under 110 millimetres.
Henderson was incorporated in 1953 around the Basic Magnesium plant, opened in 1941 to produce magnesium for the Second World War. When the plant closed after the war, the state purchased the townsite and the population stayed. Growth followed the 1970s casino boom across the county line and accelerated through the 1990s and 2000s with the master-planned communities of Green Valley, Green Valley Ranch, and Anthem. The Henderson Pavilion and the Water Street District anchor the older civic core; the lake-bordering districts grew out of the desert later.