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Welcome to Dry Lake ...

Dry Lake is located in Clark County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Dry Lake, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1925.

A typical abbreviation for Dry Lake: Dry Lk.

Dry Lake is 2,090 feet [637 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Dry Lake lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel south from Dry Lake, you will leave Pacific Time and cross into the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST). In addition, you will be moving from an area that observes daylight saving time to one that does not.

Area Codes for Dry Lake: 702 & 725<3>

Communities Also Named Dry Lake ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Dry Lake - it's located in Montana.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Dry Lake.

Communities near Dry Lake ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Dry Lake.

  • Silver City ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
    • Silver City is located in Clark County
  • Moapa Town
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moapa Town have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moapa Town
    • Moapa Town is located in Clark County
  • Moapa
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Glendale
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Sunrise Manor
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunrise Manor have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Manor
    • Sunrise Manor is located in Clark County
  • Amber ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Amber. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amber
    • Amber is located in Clark County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Amber
    • From Dry Lake to Amber
  • Logandale
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Moapa Valley
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Overton
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • North Las Vegas
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Dry Lake. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Dry Lake.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Dry Lake. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dry Lake.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Dry Lake. See our Newspapers Page for Dry Lake.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Dry Lake ...

Looking for more information about Dry Lake? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Dry Lake, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Dry Lake.

Adding Dry Lake to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Dry Lake in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Dry Lake was mentioned on a train schedule titled Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (September 1924).

We also found Dry Lake in the book titled .<7> X3X - From that list, the Dry Lake post office opened in 1925.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Dry Lake.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Dry Lake. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Clark County: www.accessclarkcounty.com/

The official website for State of Nevada: https://nv.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Nevada's counties, including Clark, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Dry Lake - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 702 code has been Overlayed with the 725 area code. New phone numbers in the Dry Lake area will be assigned with one of these codes: 702 or 725. As a result, placing a call in the Dry Lake area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<7>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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