Sloan is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
located in
Clark County,
Nevada
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, southwest of
Las Vegas
Las Vegas, colloquially referred to as Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-l ...
. The community has a population of 105 residents, as per the
2010 U.S. Census. Sloan is renowned for its
canyon,
petroglyph
A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...
s, and the
George W. Dunaway Army Reserve Center.
History
Sloan was initially settled in 1912 as Ehret, its founder's family name. On September 11, 1922, the name of the community was changed to Sloan, named after the
limestone
Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...
dolomite carnotite found in the area.
Geography
Sloan is situated in the North McCullough Wilderness Area and is adjacent to the
McCullough Range. It is home to several hiking trails and the
Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area,
Petroglyph Canyon, and
Black Mountain.
Attractions
The Sloan Canyon Petroglyph Site is a
National Register-listed property located within the
Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area, which is a 48,438 acre conservation area in the eastern part of Sloan. It contains more than 1,700 individual design elements that dates back to
Archaic times. It also contains geological features such as volcanic rock peaks.
Its petroglyphs dates thousands of years back and includes carvings and paintings by Indian peoples such as the
Ancestral Puebloans,
Patayan people, and
Southern Paiute people. It was designated a
National Conservation Area by the
U.S. Congress in 2002, through the passing of the H.R. 5200 - Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002.
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The George W. Dunaway Army Reserve Center, which is not open to the public, officially opened in April 2015.
Access
Sloan is adjacent to
Interstate 15 and can be accessed via exit 25. There are no bus routes from Las Vegas to Sloan. The Sloan Canyon visitors center and
trailhead to the petroglyphs are accessible from a newer paved road through the Henderson neighborhood of Anthem, east of Interstate 15.
In popular culture
Sloan appears as a small mining town in the 2010 videogame ''
Fallout: New Vegas''.
References
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1912 establishments in Nevada
Populated places established in 1912
Populated places in the Mojave Desert
Unincorporated communities in Clark County, Nevada