Mesquite
Mesquite is a city in Clark County, in Southern Nevada, about 80 mi northeast of Las Vegas. It is immediately on the Nevada-Arizona border, near Utah. The town is on the north bank of the Virgin River, with the smaller settlement of Bunkerville on the south side of the river.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 20,500 residents
- Description: city in Clark County, Nevada, United States
- Also known as: “Mesquite, Nevada” and “Mesquite, NV”
- Postal codes: 89024, 89027, and 89034
Places of Interest
Highlights include Virgin Valley Heritage Museum and Virgin Valley High School.
Virgin Valley Heritage Museum
Museum
The Virgin Valley Heritage Museum, originally known as the Desert Valley Museum, is in Mesquite, Nevada and is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. The museum displays exhibits about area pioneers and local history.
Virgin Valley High School
School
Virgin Valley High School is a high school in Mesquite, Nevada under the jurisdiction of the Clark County School District. Up until the opening of Beaver Dam High School in Beaver Dam, Arizona in the fall of 2004, high school students from the Littlefield Unified School District across the Arizona state line attended high school at Virgin Valley.
Mesquite
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Clark, Southern Nevada, Nevada, Southwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.8036° or 36° 48′ 13″ northLongitude
-114.0671° or 114° 4′ 2″ westPopulation
20,500Elevation
1,601 feet (488 metres)IATA airport code
MFHUnited Nations Location Code
US MFHOpen location code
8587RW3M+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 150939043OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
5508180Wikidata ID
Q991218
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mesquite” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مسكيت”
- Arabic: “ميسكيت”
- Asturian: “Mezquite”
- Basque: “Mesquite”
- Bulgarian: “Мъскийт”
- Catalan: “Mesquite”
- Cebuano: “Mesquite”
- Chechen: “Мескит”
- Chinese: “Mesquite”
- Chinese: “梅斯基特”
- Chinese: “梅斯基特市”
- Chinese: “豆科灌木”
- Czech: “Mesquite”
- Danish: “Mesquite”
- Dutch: “Mesquite”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميسكيت”
- Finnish: “Mesquite”
- French: “Mesquite”
- German: “Mesquite”
- Gilaki: “مسکیت”
- Haitian: “Mesquite, Nevada”
- Haitian: “Mesquite”
- Hebrew: “ינבוט”
- Hebrew: “מסקיט”
- Hungarian: “Mesquite”
- Irish: “Mesquite”
- Italian: “Mesquite”
- Japanese: “メスキーテ”
- Japanese: “メスキート (植物)”
- Japanese: “メスキート”
- Korean: “메스키트”
- Ladin: “Mesquite”
- Mazanderani: “مسکیت”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mesquite”
- Navajo: “Nanistání Bił Hazteel”
- Nepali: “mesquite”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mesquite”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mesquite”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mesquite”
- Persian: “الموو، نیومکزیکو”
- Persian: “مسکیت، نوادا”
- Persian: “مسکیت”
- Polish: “Mesquite”
- Portuguese: “Mesquite”
- Romanian: “Mesquite”
- Russian: “mesquite”
- Serbian: “Мескит”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mesquite, Nevada”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mesquite”
- Slovak: “Mesquite”
- South Azerbaijani: “مزکویت، نوادا”
- Spanish: “Mesquite (Nevada)”
- Spanish: “Mesquite”
- Swedish: “Mesquite, Nevada”
- Swedish: “Mesquite”
- Tatar: “Мескит (Невада)”
- Tatar: “Мескит”
- Turkish: “Mesquite, Nevada”
- Turkish: “Mesquite”
- Ukrainian: “Мескіт”
- Urdu: “مسکیٹ، نیواڈا”
- Urdu: “مسکیٹ”
- Uzbek: “Mesquite”
- Vietnamese: “Mesquite, Nevada”
- Vietnamese: “Mesquite”
- Volapük: “Mesquite”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mesquite, Nevada”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mesquite”
- Welsh: “Mesquite, Nevada”
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