[las vegas drunk]

Originally Posted by olecapt

Nice try LVD...but Paradise is not a city. It is a town.

Just to add to the confusion there are two kinds of town...

And paradise was strategic to the development of LV...Why was that?

Ok, it is a town, but what I was getting at is it has it's own name at least.

[cedar_bluff_tree_farm]

Las Vegas Drunk is correct.You can debate whether it is a town or a city. It's unincorporated so it has no official government and the citizens are only held to the laws of the county. The "town" has no power. However, many maps will show unincorporated towns and the post office will give residents of these towns their own zip code and frequently town name. So I'd call it a town or city with the caveat that it's unincorporated.

[cedar_bluff_tree_farm]

Originally Posted by scirocco22

Sorry they're being so hard on you, cedarbluff.

Many decades ago, the Las Vegas Police Department and the Clark County Sheriff's Department merged into what commonly is now referred to as "Metro" or LVMPD.

As Olecapt has stated, the strip is still patrolled by Metro as are other parts of unincorporated Clark County.

That's ok. I think this thread was asking for a little ribbing.

Olecapt is correct that I don't live in Vegas so some of the unique things to Vegas I don't understand. Perhaps I will understand better after my trip there in about a month. Well, I hope I won't need to understand about police vs sheriffs this trip.

[cedar_bluff_tree_farm]

Originally Posted by hockeygirl4

Lay off the drugs....are you seriously posting a really dumb question in the Las Vegas forum?

Yes, this is a really dumb question. And 5 out of 6 people so far got the answer correct. Hope you were one of them!

Originally Posted by hockeygirl4

I'm wondering if you are one of those people that call travel agencies and ask what the bus fare is to Hawaii.

I've never asked that one. But I have wondered if they have interstate highways in Hawaii.

[Buzz123]

One of the first things a newbie learns here is that the city limits are on the North side of Sahara. Cross the street and you're in the county. So the Stratosphere is in the city, and two blocks away, the Sahara is in the county, as are all the Strip hotels.

The city will never annex the Strip because the hotel owners who tell the city and county commissioners what to do don't want to pay the taxes for city services which they now get for free. The three cities (Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas) have their own fire departments plus the county fire department. All of them respond to the Strip. The County Fire Department sends ambulances to Strip emergencies, even though they leave the transportation to the private ambulance services, which respond to the same emergency. Each City Fire Department provides emergency ambulance service within it's borders.

There hasn't been a Las Vegas Police Department since the city police and county sheriff merged to become the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) 1973. It is run by the sheriff and they are responsible for all of Clark County, including all UNINCORPORATED Townships such as Paradise and Winchester, and all the INCORPORATED towns like Mesquite, Searchlight, and Laughlin, but not Henderson, North Las Vegas, and Boulder City. Henderson, Boulder City, and North Las Vegas declined to join the merger, so they still have their own forces (and they seem to write more tickets).

Clark County is an area of over 8,000 square miles, just slightly smaller than Vermont. But as far as the LAS VEGAS VALLEY is concerned, if you don't live here to know the difference you can't really tell when you've left one city or township and entered another. I doubt if most residents even know that, at least in Las Vegas and North Las Vegas, the street name signs are different colors; green in Las Vegas and the county, and blue in North Las Vegas. I keep meaning to check the ones in Henderson and Boulder City but I always forget.

[hockeygirl4]

Ok, I was always and apparently still am, HORRIBLE at trick questions. I looked at the surface of the question, and not deeper into it. My apologies Cedar Bluff...