Searchlight, Nevada
Searchlight is an unincorporated town[3] and census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Nevada, United States, at the topographic saddle between two mountain ranges. At the 2020 census it had a population of 445.[4]
Geography[edit]
Climate[edit]
The city experiences a desert climate (Köppen: BWh) with hot summers and cool winters, but it is not uncommon to see temperatures below freezing. [7] Searchlight's elevation makes temperatures somewhat cooler than lower-elevation areas in the Mojave Desert, such as Baker, California; Needles, California; and Fort Mohave, Arizona. However, summers can still be extremely hot. Due to Searchlight's altitude and aridity, temperatures drop quickly after sunset, especially in the summer. Daytime highs in the winter are usually well above freezing, and nighttime lows drop below freezing only a few nights a year.
Education[edit]
Public education in Searchlight is administered by Clark County School District. The district operates Reid Elementary School (K–5) in Searchlight.[11]
Searchlight has a public library, a branch of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.[12]
Transportation[edit]
Public transport[edit]
The Silver Rider Transit operates express buses between Laughlin, Searchlight and Las Vegas.[13] Private shuttle companies connect Searchlight with Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.[14]
Highways[edit]
Searchlight is located at the junction of two highways; U.S. Route 95 which connects towards Boulder City and the Las Vegas Valley in the north and Needles, California in the south, and Nevada State Route 164 which has its eastern terminus in Searchlight and heads west towards the California border from where it becomes Nipton Road and eventually connects to Interstate 15.
In popular culture[edit]
In 1907, the "Searchlight Rag" by Scott Joplin was published. In the early 1890s, Joplin's friends, the brothers Tom and Charles Turpin, had been prospecting in the Searchlight area. Their frequent stories of this experience, recounted to the patrons of their bar, inspired the title of the rag.[19]
Searchlight is featured in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas.