Boulder City is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States.
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16 Facts About Boulder City
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Boulder City is one of only two places in Nevada that prohibits gambling, the other being the town of Panaca.
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Land upon which Boulder City was founded was a harsh, desert environment.
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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.
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Boulder City was exceptionally rare as an example of a town fully planned under government supervision.
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Boulder City was carefully planned through federal supervision as a model community, with Dutch-born urban architect Saco Rienk de Boer contracted to plan it.
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Boulder City Theatre, established in 1931, meant that workers were not obliged to travel to Las Vegas for amusements.
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Visitors to Boulder City were admitted by permit, and by 1932, there was a gatehouse through which all visitors had to pass.
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Boulder City charter, approved by the residents, prohibited gambling within the city limits.
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The Hoover Dam Lodge hotel-casino permits gambling and has a Boulder City mailing address, but it is located on a parcel of private land within the boundaries of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and thus not within city limits.
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Boulder City maintains strict controls on growth, limited to 120 single- or multi-family residential building permits for new construction per year.
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Boulder City has two municipal golf courses, one private golf course, a city pool, racquetball complex, lit tennis courts, athletic fields, BMX bicycle track, ample mountain hiking trails, and is only a few miles away from Lake Mead.
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City of Boulder City is a special charter municipality which operates under the council-manager form of government.
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Boulder City is one of two locations within the State of Nevada where military veterans and their spouses can be interred.
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Boulder City is home of one non-profit private religious elementary school, Grace Christian Academy, which offers a Christian education for grades kindergarten through five.
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The Boulder City Library featured in the plot of the Oscar-winning 2016 film La La Land as the landmark across the street from the childhood home of the film's fictional heroine, aspiring actress Mia Dolan.
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