Why Is Las Vegas in Nevada, Not Arizona?

“The southern tip of Nevada, where nearly three out of four Nevadans live today, used to belong to Arizona. In 1865 the Arizona Territory organized it as Pah-Ute County, with its county seat at Callville on the Colorado River. After gold was found in the region, Nevada asked Congress to move its southern border down to the river, and on May 5, 1866, Congress transferred the land west of the Colorado River to Nevada (it took effect in January 1867). Arizona protested for years and kept representatives for the lost county in its territorial legislature. When a survey placed the Mormon farming settlements of the Muddy River in Nevada, the state demanded back taxes payable only in gold, and almost all of the settlers left in February 1871. That same month Arizona dissolved Pah-Ute County. Las Vegas itself was founded only in 1905. The old county seat of St. Thomas was later flooded by Lake Mead, and its ruins reappear when the lake level drops. At Hoover Dam, two clocks still show Nevada time and Arizona time, an hour apart in winter because Arizona does not observe daylight saving time. Map imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless – https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. Ocean & low-zoom imagery: NASA Blue Marble. Borders: Natural Earth (public domain). Font: Montserrat (OFL). Icons: Material Icons (Apache 2.0), Microsoft Fluent Emoji 3D (MIT). Photos (Wikimedia Commons): Hoover Dam clocks, 2009 (CGP Grey, CC BY 2.0, cropped and combined); Map of Pah-Ute County, James M. Barney, 1921 (public domain); Ruins of St. Thomas, Lake Mead NRA, 2017 (Andrew Cattoir, NPS, public domain); First State Bank of Las Vegas, 1905 (public domain). Historical boundaries on the map are approximate illustrations. Voice: Chatterbox TTS. Music & SFX: original. #shorts #geography #history #lasvegas #nevada #arizona”