This is a list of symbols of the U.S. state of Nevada . The majority of the items in the list are officially recognized symbols created by an act of the Nevada Legislature and signed into law by the governor.
This is a list of symbols of the U.S. state of Nevada . The majority of the items in the list are officially recognized symbols created by an act of the Nevada Legislature and signed into law by the governor.
| Type | Symbol | Year | Images |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flag | State seal on a blue background | 1929 |  |
| Motto | All for our country | 1886 | |
| Nicknames | Silver State, Battle Born State, Sagebrush State | n/a | |
| Seal | The Seal of Nevada | 1886 |  |
| Song | Home Means Nevada | 1933 | |
| Steam locomotive | Nevada Northern Railway #40 | 2009 |  |
| Type | Symbol | Year | Images |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flower | Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) | 1917 |  |
| Tree | Great Basin Bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) | 1987 |  |
| Single-leaf Piñon (Pinus monophylla) | 1959 |  | |
| Grass | Indian ricegrass (Eriocoma hymenoides) | 1977 |  |
| Type | Symbol | Year | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bird | Mountain bluebird (Sialia currucoides) | 1967 |  |
| Animal | Desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) | 1973 |  |
| Fish | Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncoryhnchus clarki henshawi) | 1981 |  |
| Fossil | Ichthyosaur (Shonisaurus popularis) [1] [2] | 1977 |  |
| Reptile | Desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) | 1989 |  |
| Insect | Vivid Dancer Damselfly (Argia vivida) [3] | 2009 |  |
| Type | Symbol | Year | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mineral | Silver | 1977 |  |
| Rock | Sandstone | 1987 |  |
| Soil | Orovada | 2001 | |
| Element | Neon [4] | 2019 |
| Type | Symbol | Year | Images | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Color | Blue and Silver [5] | 1983 | ||
| Steam locomotive | Nevada Northern Railway #40 | 2009 | | |
NV Energy is a public utility which generates, transmits and distributes electric service in northern and southern Nevada, including the Las Vegas Valley, and provides natural gas service in the Reno–Sparks metropolitan area of northern Nevada. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, it serves about 1.3 million customers and over 40 million tourists annually.
Shonisaurus is a genus of very large ichthyosaurs. At least 37 incomplete fossil specimens of the type species, Shonisaurus popularis, have been found in the Luning Formation of Nevada, USA. This formation dates to the late Carnian-early Norian age of the Late Triassic, around 227 million years ago. Other possible species of Shonisaurus have been discovered from the middle Norian deposits of Canada and Alaska.
The Nevada Department of Transportation is a government agency in the U.S. state of Nevada. NDOT is responsible for maintaining and improving Nevada's highway system, which includes U.S. highways and Interstate highways within the state's boundaries. The department is notable for its aggressively proactive approach to highway maintenance. Nevada state roads and bridges have also been named some of the nation's best.
Berlin–Ichthyosaur State Park is a public recreation area and historic preserve that protects undisturbed ichthyosaur fossils and the ghost town of Berlin in far northwestern Nye County, Nevada. The state park covers more than 1,100 acres (450 ha) at an elevation of 7,000 feet (2,100 m) on the western slope of central Nevada's Shoshone mountain range, 23 miles (37 km) east of Gabbs.
Phalarodon is an extinct genus of mixosaurid ichthyosaur known from the Middle Triassic. Its name is derived from the Greek φάλαρα (phálara) and odon ("tooth"). The genus has had a tumultuous history since its classification in 1910, with different workers describing species under different genera or declaring the genus to be a nomen dubium. Currently three species are recognized, but more have been identified in the past.
Paleontology in Nevada refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Nevada. Nevada has a rich fossil record of plants and animal life spanning the past 650 million years of time. The earliest fossils from the state are from Esmeralda County, and are Late Proterozoic in age and represent stromatolite reefs of cyanobacteria, amongst these reefs were some of the oldest known shells in the fossil record, the Cloudina-fauna. Much of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic fossil story of Nevada is that of a warm, shallow, tropical sea, with a few exceptions towards the Late Paleozoic. As such, many fossils across the state are those of marine animals, such as trilobites, brachiopods, bryozoans, honeycomb corals, archaeocyaths, and horn corals.
Margaret Marean Wheat was an American anthropologist, archeologist and paleontologist who worked and made significant contributions in the Great Basin, in North America.
The Nevada Film Office is a Nevada state agency that promotes Nevada as a location of choice for film, entertainment, television, and multimedia production. The agency also maintains several open directories for film locations and production crews in Nevada, and offers services to connect with resources that production companies need while filming in Nevada. Since 2014, it also administers several tax credit incentives for companies that film in Nevada.
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