[SoCalCpl2]

If you think thats big check out San bernardino county in California.... 20,105 square miles....Larger than each of the nine smallest states....

Now thats a BIG county.....

[Buzz123]

It may be a county the size of Vermont, but there is nothing out there. As far as where you'd go and what roads, you have your choice of three main highways, and not many other paved roads. It is mostly Federal land - BLM and Military.

But, to the south on U.S. 95 you have Searchlight (a wide spot in the road), Cal/Nev/Ari, which is even smaller than Searchlight, and Laughlin, pretty much a strip of resorts along the Colorado River. South of that to the Cal/AZ borders is really nothing.

The Colorado River makes up much of the eastern border, opposite Arizona, and the rest of the eastern border north of that is Utah. The northern border and the western borders you can ignore. There's nothing there.

Northeast are a couple of small rural towns that are barely towns at all, Alamo, then your reach Mesquite, which has a few casinos. Off of I-15 between here and Mesquite is SR 169. It goes south into the very small rural communities of Logandale and Overton.

Northwest is Indian Springs, mostly Air Force personnel for the very small Creech AFB, the base that operates the drones around the world. Hardly a town at all.

South is Boulder City, the only town outside the Las Vegas Valley besides Mesquite that you could even call a city. You haven't said what you'll be doing, but unless your job is to provide a service to people living alone in the middle of nowhere, other than the towns I mentioned, it is doubtful you'll have to worry about too many other locations.

If you do a Map Quest of Las Vegas, all you need do is expand from there to see the county. MapQuest Maps - Driving Directions - Map

Get the directions to each town and it will tell you how far they are from Las Vegas. You'll see names on the map along the three main highways. That's all they are ...names. You are over-thinking this thing. We don't have a lot of towns in Nevada. We have names on the map. Most of those were mining towns over 100 years ago and are now just a place name, or a ghost town. There are no cities making up the borders of any of the 17 counties; and many of those counties are even larger than Clark. The former Ormsby County was incorporated by Carson City, but even as small as it is, it is spread out over a mostly empty area. It is a vast, EMPTY, state. 87% of it is federal land. There is no one there. Think Australian Outback without the Aborigines. Just miles and miles of miles and miles.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by SoCalCpl2

If you think thats big check out San Bernardino county in California.... 20,105 square miles....Larger than each of the nine smallest states....

Now thats a BIG county.....

San Berdo County is the largest in the country. Texas has about 250 counties, each the size of small European countries; but San Bernardino is the biggest if I remember correctly. Nye County is over 18,000 sq. mi., with only 43,000 people; and Elko Cty., with a population of less than 50,000, is next at over 17,000 sq. mi. Elko County not long ago only had about 3,000 people, and Nye was even less before someone decided to develop Pahrump. Nevada is the 7th largest state in the country, and one of the least populated. In fact, if it wasn't for Las Vegas, Nevada could hardly qualify as a state at all. When Dyn and I first came here Nevada only had about 400,000 total population. Now it's 2.7 million, and 2 million of them live in Clark County. Nevada QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

[dynimagelv]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

San Berdo County is the largest in the country. Texas has about 250 counties, each the size of small European countries; but San Bernardino is the biggest if I remember correctly. Nye County is over 18,000 sq. mi., with only 43,000 people; and Elko Cty., with a population of less than 50,000, is next at over 17,000 sq. mi. Elko County not long ago only had about 3,000 people, and Nye was even less before someone decided to develop Pahrump. Nevada is the 7th largest state in the country, and one of the least populated. In fact, if it wasn't for Las Vegas, Nevada could hardly qualify as a state at all. When Dyn and I first came here Nevada only had about 400,000 total population. Now it's 2.7 million, and 2 million of them live in Clark County. Nevada QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

actually 455,000 when my axe hit the door ....it was heaven

[chgodon]

Buz123. Best answer at 1232am. Exactly what I was looking
for besides the other poster's map link.

[jlawrence01]

Originally Posted by chgodon

I've looked at few online maps of Clark County but I can't find one that displays the County borders. Online facts indicates Clark County goes South to the Colorado river by Laughlin. It goes South East to the Colorado river by Hoover Dam. Does anybody have a good point of reference for Clark County's East, North and West borders? Maybe by city points. I already found out it's square miles is 8,091 and I thought Orange County, CA was big at 947 square miles.

And Clark County is not even the largest county in Nevada, a distinction that goes to Elko County in NE Nevada. And it is a lot smaller than the bordering county of San Bernardino Co., CA.