And it's also why I'll never want to live in a city bigger than Reno. This is my home. From an AP feed, related to the disappearance of a wealthy aviator:
RENO, Nev. (AP) — From outside Nevada, it's hard to fully appreciate just how expansive, how desolate the truly wide open spaces of the state can be.
Against that vast emptiness, the search for aviator-adventurer Steve Fossett and his single-engine plane is a search for a needle in a whole county full of hay stacks.
Superimposed on a U.S. map, Nevada's 110,000 square miles would stretch from New York City west to Pittsburgh and south to Myrtle Beach, S.C. — but with hardly any of the people.
While Nevada's population has been the fastest growing in the nation for most of the last three decades, it averaged just 18 people per square mile in 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That compares to a national average of 80 people per square mile and 1,134 in New Jersey, the nation's most densely populated state.
Even that doesn't tell the whole story. Some 2.3 million of Nevada's nearly 2.6 million residents live in just the two counties that include Las Vegas and Reno. Across the rest of Nevada, the average is fewer than three people per square mile, with many of them concentrated in a few small towns.
Monday, September 10, 2007
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I especially love the Nevada / Tahoe wilderness. It makes living in Reno always an adventure.
But there's a whole, vaster, emptier wilderness to the East.
I remember working one time, driving past Battle Mountain to find a substation. I was on a road with a clear view for miles, and it was pretty certain that there wasn't a person within 10 miles of me in any direction.
And in rural Nevada that's surprisingly easy to achieve. I was on a paved, maintained road. When you wander off the beaten path, it's even MORE desolate.
Very cool, too... if you're not lost and trying to find help.
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