North Las Vegas

Kyle Ranch was established by Conrad Kiel in 1875 in what is now North Las Vegas, Nevada. The site is currently managed by the city's park department... as the Kyle Ranch Historic Site and is not open to the public. The original adobe structure, the oldest standing building in Las Vegas, and the Kyle Ranch Cemetery is about all that remains. The cemetery is currently empty with the bodies, mostly family members of the founders, currently stored at UNLV. The ranch is the site of an artesian well and a small wetlands, a reminder of what drew the first settlers and travelers to the site. The spring also provided water allowing the ranch to grow fruits and vegetables for other settlers in the area. The site is marked as Nevada Historical Marker 224. Archibald Stewart, an early pioneer in the area was killed in a gunfight on the ranch in 1884. In 1900, Ed Kiel and William Kiel the owners were found shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide. The bodies were exhumed in the mid-1970s and it was determined that they had both been murdered. The ranch was sold in 1903 to the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad.
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Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 35th most populous, and the 9th least densely populated of the 50 United States. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its three largest incorporated cities. Nevada's capital is Carson City. Nevada is largely desert and semiarid, with much of it located within... the Great Basin. Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge. Approximately 86% of the state's land is owned by the US government under various jurisdictions, both civilian and military. The name Nevada is derived from the nearby Sierra Nevada mountains, which means "snow-capped mountain range" in Spanish. The land comprising the modern state was inhabited by Native Americans of the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes prior to European contact. It was subsequently claimed by Spain as a part of Alta California until the Mexican War of Independence brought it under Mexican control.
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