50 States

# The federal government manages Eighty-seven percent of Nevada land. # Area 51, a top secret area of Nellis Air Force Range and Nuclear Test Site, is rumored to have housed the development of the first Stealth bomber and alien and UFO research facilities. # Nevada is the seventh largest state in size. # The nation's largest silver deposit, the Comstock Lode, was found in Nevada in 1859. # Nevada is the driest state in the nation with an average annual rainfall of seven inches. # Nevada has the only complete skeleton of an Ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile measuring 55 feet. # Nevada is the largest gold producing state in the U.S. and third in the world behind South Africa and Australia. # Gambling was reinstate in the State in 1931.