Alamo Nevada Map

About Alamo, Nevada

Alamo is a locality in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States. It is a small community with a population of 785. The population density is 47.7 people per km². Alamo is located at 37.3770°N, 115.1678°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 89001.

Alamo emerges from the high desert floor as a narrow ribbon of green, defined by the persistent, life-giving flow of Pahranagat Creek. It lies 71.8 miles west-northwest of Mesquite, NV (from Mesquite, NV: bearing 303°T), and is situated 82.2 miles north of Las Vegas. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar, crystalline clarity, stripping away the distance until the jagged silhouette of Table Top Mountain looms eight miles away like a sentinel carved from scorched earth. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the landscape dissolves into the muted, dusty palette of the Great Basin, where sagebrush clings to the arid soil and the horizon stretches toward Eightmile Valley in a vast, uninterrupted silence. The air is thin and dry, carrying the faint, metallic scent of sun-baked stone and the quiet, rhythmic hum of a place that measures time by the slow migration of shadows across the valley floor.

Alamo preserves the echoes of early ranching families who carved a livelihood out of the alkali flats, grounding the local economy in the stubborn endurance of agriculture and the seasonal cycles of the land. The proximity of the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge, just four miles away, anchors the region in a deliberate stillness, providing a sanctuary for migratory birds that find temporary reprieve near the waters of Upper Pahranagat Lake. Life in Alamo moves with a deliberate, unadorned pace, insulated from the frantic pulse of the neon-lit basins to the south. Here, the history of the frontier remains etched into the modest architecture and the quiet habits of the residents, who maintain a watchful stewardship over the water rights and the sparse, resilient pastures that define their daily existence.

About This Alamo Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Alamo, Nevada. Coordinates: 37.377016, -115.167821. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Alamo includes the ZIP code (89001), telephone area code (702, 725), county seat of Lincoln County (Pioche), and school district assignment (Lincoln County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.