Tag: Boulder City
Boulder City is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It is approximately 20 mi (32 km) from the city of Las Vegas. As of the 2010 census, the population of Boulder City was 15,023.
Boulder City is one of only two cities in Nevada that prohibit gambling, the other being Panaca.
Boulder City was originally built in 1931 by the Bureau of Reclamation and Six Companies, Inc. as housing for workers who were building Hoover Dam.
The land upon which Boulder City was founded was a harsh, desert environment. Its sole reason for existence was the need to house workers contracted to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River (known commonly as Boulder Dam from 1933 to 1947, when it was officially re-named Hoover Dam by a joint resolution of Congress). Men hoping for work on the dam project had begun settling along the river in tents soon after the precise site for the dam had been chosen by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1930. Their ramshackle edifices were collectively known as ‘Ragtown’…
