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


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

Whitney has a population of 44488. 48.1% of Whitney’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.9 are female. 40.6% of Whitney is married and 54.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $199,077, and the average rent is $1,156. Household median income in Whitney is $50,905, and the individual median income is $27,194. Whitney’s Ethnic is the following: White(45.7%), Hispanic(40.1%), Other(19.8%), Asian(12%), Black(10.6%), Multiple(9.8%), Pacific(1.1%), Native(1%).


Stowell E. Whitney, a dairy farmer from Bunkerville, Nevada, purchased a ranch in the area in the 1910s. The town of Whitney was established in 1931, when Whitney subdivided his ranch due to the construction of the Boulder Highway. Much of this land is now within Henderson city limits. He didn't attract many buyers, since this took place during the Great Depression.


A Whitney post office was opened the following year. The town was officially founded in 1942 by the Clark County Commission, and that year Whitney was given official borders. The town was renamed as East Las Vegas in 1958, in response to a petition signed by almost all the residents. The name was changed back to Whitney in 1993.Prior to the 1970s, Whitney was one of a few small communities between Las Vegas and Henderson along Boulder Highway (which was US 93, US 95 and US 466 at the time).


Whitney Elementary School was a converted barracks. It housed grades from first to seventh until the 1960s; after that, seventh-graders were moved to Henderson Junior High. In the early years, the town's post office was operated by John and Nellie Bunch, owners of much of the Whitney property and surrounding areas.


The town consisted of three streets running east and west: Whitney Avenue, Keenan Avenue, and Missouri Avenue. Cross streets running north and south were 1st Street, 2nd Street, and 3rd Street. Older students attended Basic High School in Henderson. In the early 1990s, the outward growth of development in Las Vegas and Henderson, as well as the construction of the Interstate 515 bypass of Whitney, had a negative effect on businesses in the area.


Business began to recover in the 2000s. The area has seen several new housing developments on vacant land. It is home to Sam Boyd Stadium (formerly Las Vegas Stadium, Las Vegas Silver Bowl, and Sam Boyd Silver Bowl), the former home venue of the UNLV Rebels college football team.


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