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Wadsworth is a
census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, su ...
(CDP) in Washoe County,
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. The population was 834 at the time of the 2010 census. It is part of the
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and located entirely within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation. The town was named for General James S. Wadsworth, a Civil War general killed during the
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in 1864. It was given this name by
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of the
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as a favor to General Irvin McDowell, whom Wadsworth had served under during the Civil War.


Geography

Wadsworth is located at (39.635550, -119.283175). According to the
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, the CDP has a total area of , all land.


Demographics

As of the
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of 2000, there were 881 people, 328 households, and 225 families residing in the CDP. The
population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ...
was 237.7 people per square mile (91.7/km). There were 360 housing units at an average density of 97.1 per square mile (37.5/km). The racial makeup of the CDP was 28.94%
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, 0.11%
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, 64.81% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 3.75% from other races, and 2.16% from two or more races.
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or Latino of any race were 12.03% of the population. There were 328 households, out of which 36.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.3% were
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living together, 23.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.1% were non-families. 24.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.16. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 31.3% under the age of 18, 10.1% from 18 to 24, 29.1% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.3 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $31,198, and the median income for a family was $32,109. Males had a median income of $24,479 versus $24,554 for females. The
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for the CDP was $14,756. About 7.2% of families and 8.5% of the population were below the
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, including 5.5% of those under age 18 and 5.9% of those age 65 or over.


History

* Joe Conforte—owner of the first legal brothel in the United States—moved to Nevada in 1955 and opened the Triangle River Ranch brothel in Wadsworth; an illegal brothel at the junction of Washoe, Storey, and
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counties. In 1959, Conforte served 22 months in jail after attempting to blackmail Washoe County District Attorney
Bill Raggio William Raggio (October 30, 1926 – February 23, 2012) was an American politician and a former Republican member of the Nevada Senate. He represented Washoe County's 3rd district from 1972 until his retirement in 2011. He is the longest- ...
, who summarily had the ranch burned down. *Author Gwendolyn B. Bennett spent her early childhood in Wadsworth on the Paiute Indian Reservation, where her parents were teachers. *On September 8, 1959, a bill to protect American
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s was signed into law by President Eisenhower, making it a violation of federal law to use aircraft or motorized vehicles on public land in hunting wild horses and burros.
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of Wadsworth, nicknamed "Wild Horse Annie", had lobbied Congress to pass the bill. *Wadsworth is known to participants in the Burning Man festival as the exit from
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that one takes to get to
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. The event is held in the
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which is near
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, north of Wadsworth on State Route 447. *Wadsworth is also home base to a popular Christian Rock radio station, named Renegade Radio, which broadcasts at 101.3 FM and streams at renegaderadio.org *The opening scene in
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's early western masterpiece, '' The Iron Horse'' was filmed in Wadsworth. Ford would go on to enjoy one of the greatest careers in cinema, eventually winning an unprecedented four Academy Awards as director.


Education

It is in the Washoe County School District. Circa 2000 Natchez Elementary School in Wadsworth had about 160 students with 94% being Native American. Enrollment remained at the same level as of 2016. The school is on the Paiute Indian Reservation and is the only school in the district that is on a Native American reservation. Holly O'Driscoll of the ''Nevada Living Magazine'' described it as "a small, older" facility. In 2017 Siobhan McAndrew of the '' Reno Gazette Journal'' stated that historically Natchez had issues with academic performance but by 2017 had a new principal and newly hired teachers. The district extensively renovated the school in summer 2017, spending $1.5 million to do so. Residents zoned to Natchez Elementary are zoned to Mendive Middle School and
Edward C. Reed High School Edward C. Reed High School is a public secondary school in Sparks, Nevada and is one of three public high schools run by the Washoe County School District within the city of Sparks. The school was founded in the winter of 1974 to accommodate the ...
. Some students at Natchez Elementary matriculate to a Bureau of Indian Education-contracted secondary school,
Pyramid Lake Schools Pyramid Lake Schools or Pyramid Lake School, a.k.a. Pyramid Lake Jr. Sr. High School (PLJSHS), is a tribal secondary school in Nixon, Nevada, funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIE). It is within the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation. The NCES ...
.


References

* Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. ''Civil War High Commands''. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. . * Wright, Frank ''Nevada's Heartland: Washoe County and its Neighbors'' Nevada Historical Society


External links

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