Las Vegas Whitney

Whitney (earlier East Las Vegas) is a unincorporated town and evaluation assigned place in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The populace was 38,585 at the 2010 evaluation.

Stowell E. Whitney obtained a farm in the zone in the 1910's. The town of Whitney was set up in 1931, when Whitney subdivided his farm. A Whitney post office was opened the next year. The town was renamed as East Last Vegas in 1958, because of a request of marked by every one of the inhabitants. The name was changed back to Whitney in 1993.

The town comprised of three roads running east and west: Whitney Avenue, Keenan Avenue, and Missouri Avenue. Cross avenues running north and south were first Street, Second Street, and Third Street. Among perceived organizations were Harry Gunn's Liquor Store, The Three Pigs Bar, Louise's Bar, The Exotica Bar, the Wind N Sand Cafe, a corner store/advertise, a motel and several trailer parks. More established understudies went to Basic High School in Henderson.

In the mid-1990s, the outward development of advancement in Las Vegas and Henderson, and the development of the Interstate 515 sidestep of Whitney, negatively affected organizations in the territory. It wasn't until the point when the mid-2000s that business started to recoup. The region has seen a few new lodging improvements on the empty land.

It is home to Sam Boyd Stadium (once in the past the Silver Bowl), the home of the UNLV Rebels school football group.