Boulder City, Nevada

Boulder City is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States. It is approximately 26 miles (42 km) southeast of the city of Las Vegas. As of the 2010 census, the population of Boulder City was 15,023.

Boulder City is one of only two cities in Nevada that prohibit gambling, the other being Panaca.

History

Boulder City was originally built in 1931 by the Bureau of Reclamation and Six Companies, Inc. as housing for workers who were building the Hoover Dam.

Beginnings as federal company town

The land upon which Boulder City was founded was a harsh, desert environment. Its sole reason for existence was the need to house workers contracted to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River (known commonly as Boulder Dam from 1933 to 1947, when it was officially renamed Hoover Dam by a joint resolution of Congress). Men hoping for work on the dam project had begun settling along the river in tents soon after the precise site for the dam had been chosen by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1930. Their ramshackle edifices were collectively known as "Ragtown".