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Sparks, NV - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Sparks  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Sparks Home page. The Sparks Home page provides as much information as possible on Sparks. Knowing Sparks’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Sparks’s Home page, you will also find Sparks’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Sparks has a population of 102895. 49.6% of Sparks’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.4 are female. 49.9% of Sparks is married and 57.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $323,510, and the average rent is $1,244. Household median income in Sparks is $67,187, and the individual median income is $33,850. Sparks’s Ethnic is the following: White(70.4%), Hispanic(32.1%), Other(10.7%), Multiple(9.5%), Asian(5.6%), Black(2%), Native(1.1%), Pacific(0.7%).


Euro-American settlement began in the early 1850s, and the population density remained very low until 1904 when the Southern Pacific Railroad built a switch yard and maintenance sheds there, after moving the division point from Wadsworth. In 1902, The Southern Pacific purchased a large tract of swamp-like land near its newly built railyard, and gave everyone clear deed to a 50 ft × 140 ft (15 m × 43 m) lot for the sum of $1.


They also offered to pick up and move every house in Wadsworth and reassemble it in this new town free of charge. As the population increased, a city was established, first called Harriman, after E.H. Harriman, president of the Southern Pacific, and then renamed Sparks, after John Sparks, then governor of Nevada.Sparks remained a small town until the 1950s, when economic growth in Reno triggered a housing boom north of the railroad in the area of Sparks.


During the 1970s, the area south of the railroad started to fill up with warehouses and light industry. In 1984, the tower for the Nugget Casino Resort was finished, giving Sparks its first, and currently only, high-rise casino. In 1996, the redevelopment effort of the B Street business district across from the Nugget that started in the early 1980s took a step forward with the opening of a multi-screen movie complex and the construction of a plaza area.


This area, now known as Victorian Square, is a pedestrian-friendly district that hosts many open-air events.Under direction of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a comprehensive dynamic water quality computer model, the DSSAM Model, was developed (Earth Metrics, 1987) to analyze impacts of a variety of land use and stormwater management decisions throughout the 3,120-square-mile (8,100 km2) Truckee River basin; this model was used to develop a set of surface runoff stormwater management measures for Sparks in the 1980s.Panasonic Energy's manufacturing plant in Sparks, Gigafactory 1, produces EV batteries for Tesla.


It employed about 7,000 people in 2020.


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