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Nevada Legislature
The Nevada Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Legislature is a bicameral body, consisting of the lower house Nevada Assembly, with 42 members, and the upper house Nevada Senate, with 21 members. All 63 members of the Legislature are elected from an equal amount of...
and signed into law by the governor.
Miscellaneous
| Type | Symbol | Year | Image |
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| Flag State flag There are two separate meanings for the term state flag in vexillology – the flag of the government of a sovereign state, and the flag of an individual subnational state.-Government flag:... |
State seal Seal of Nevada The Great Seal of the State of Nevada is derived from the Seal of the Territory of Nevada. As Nevada prepared for statehood in 1864, its Constitutional Convention began to formalize the features of the state's official seal. Nevada was admitted as a state on October 31, 1864 by proclamation of... on a blue background |
1929 |  |
| Motto | All for our country | 1886 | |
| Nicknames | Silver State | n/a | |
| Seal Seals of the U.S. states The following gallery displays the official seals of the 50 states, federal district, and territories of the United States of America:-See also:* Coat of Arms of the U.S. States* Seals of Governors of the U.S. States* Flags of the U.S. states... |
The Seal of Nevada Seal of Nevada The Great Seal of the State of Nevada is derived from the Seal of the Territory of Nevada. As Nevada prepared for statehood in 1864, its Constitutional Convention began to formalize the features of the state's official seal. Nevada was admitted as a state on October 31, 1864 by proclamation of... |
1886 |
Flora
| Type | Symbol | Year | Image |
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| Flower | Sagebrush Sagebrush Sagebrush is a common name of a number of shrubby plant species in the genus Artemisia native to western North America;Or, the sagebrush steppe ecoregion, having one or more kinds of sagebrush, bunchgrasses and others;... (Artemisia tridentata) |
1917 |  |
| Tree | Single-leaf Pinyon Single-leaf Pinyon The Single-leaf Pinyon, ', is a pine in the pinyon pine group, native to the United States and northwest Mexico. The range is in southernmost Idaho, western Utah, Arizona, southwest New Mexico, Nevada, eastern and southern California and northern Baja California.It occurs at moderate altitudes from... (Pinus monophylla) |
1953 |  |
Fauna
| Type | Symbol | Year | Image |
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| Bird | Mountain Bluebird Mountain Bluebird The Mountain Bluebird is a medium-sized bird weighing about 2-5 ounces, with a length from 15–20 cm . They have light underbellies and black eyes. Adult males have thin bills are bright turquoise-blue and somewhat lighter beneath. Adult females have duller blue wings and tail, grey breast,... (Sialia currucoides) |
1967 |  |
| Animal | Desert Bighorn Sheep Desert Bighorn Sheep The Desert Bighorn Sheep is a subspecies of Bighorn Sheep that occurs in the desert Southwest regions of the United States and in the northern regions of Mexico. The trinomial of this species commemorates the American naturalist Edward William Nelson... (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) |
1973 |  |
| Fish | Lahontan cutthroat trout Lahontan cutthroat trout Lahontan cutthroat trout is the largest subspecies of cutthroat trout, and the state fish of Nevada.-Natural history:... (Salmo clarki henshawi) |
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| Reptile | Desert Tortoise Desert Tortoise The desert tortoise is a species of tortoise native to the Mojave desert and Sonoran desert of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. They can be located in western Arizona, southeastern California, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah. The species name agassizii is in honor of... (Gopherus agassizii) |
1989 |  |
Geology
| Type | Symbol | Year | Image |
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| Mineral | Silver Silver Silver is a metallic chemical element with the chemical symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it has the highest electrical conductivity of any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any metal... |
1977 |  |
| Rock | Sandstone Sandstone Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow,... |
1987 |  |
See also
- List of Nevada-related topics
- Lists of United States state insignia
- State of Nevada