Alamo is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 in Lincoln County

Lincoln County, Nevada

Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2000 census, the population was 4,165. Its county seat is Pioche.-History:...

, Nevada

Nevada

Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

, United States

United States

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, about 90 miles (144.8 km) north of Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...

. Its elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

 is 3,449 feet (1,051 meters). It is named after the Spanish word for "poplar" due to the presence of that type of tree. Founded in 1901, Alamo lies in the Pahranagat Valley

Pahranagat Valley

The Pahranagat Valley is a Tonopah Basin landform in Lincoln County, Nevada.The more fertile part of Pahranagat Valley is a narrow ribbon of green like an oasis in the vast Nevada desert...

. Its economy is dependent primarily upon ranching. The closest attraction is the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge

Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge

The Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge is a protected wildlife refuge, located at the southern end of the Pahranagat Valley and administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is situated north of Las Vegas, Nevada in Lincoln County, Nevada...

.

Between Alamo and the town of Rachel

Rachel, Nevada

Rachel is an unincorporated portion of Lincoln County, Nevada. As the closest habitation to the Nellis Air Force Range and Area 51, Rachel enjoys a modest celebrity, particularly among aviation enthusiasts and UFO hunters....

 are the site of the Devonian

Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic Era spanning from the end of the Silurian Period, about 416.0 ± 2.8 Mya , to the beginning of the Carboniferous Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya...

 Alamo Impact Breccia

Alamo bolide impact

The Alamo bolide impact occurred 367 million years ago, when one or more hypervelocity objects from space slammed into shallow marine waters at a site that is now the Devonian Guilmette Formation of the Worthington Mountains and Schell Creek Range of southeastern Nevada; the event is named for...

.

Tourism

Alamo attracts tourists and truckers traveling from Las Vegas to northern Nevada and Idaho. Attractions include the nearby warm springs, wildlife refuge, Extraterrestrial Highway and Area 51

Area 51

Area 51 is a military base, and a remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base. It is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States, 83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas. Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield...

. Gas stations in Alamo cater to these tourists by offering alien memorabilia. There are three truck stops, the Alamo Sinclair, the Ash Springs Shell and the Alamo truck stop, that offer large diesel filling areas to attract passing truckers. There are also four motels in Alamo, the Meadow Lane Motel, Sunset View Inn, Windmill Ridge, and A Cowboy's Dream. There is also Carlos' Restaurant, which serves both American and Mexican food. Alamo also has the Alamo RV Park which serves traveling tourists.

Education

Public education is provided by the Lincoln County School District, with offices in Panaca, Nevada. There are three schools in the valley, though for now the 6th, 7th and 8th are partly in the high school, as the middle school is being redone.

School	Grades
Pahranagat Valley Elementary School	K–5
Pahranagat Valley Middle School	6-8
Pahranagat Valley High School	9-12

Religion

There are three different religious denomination

Religious denomination

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s with churches in Alamo, they are:

• Christian Bible Fellowship Church
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who were early settlers of this area
• Trinity Assembly of God

Services

Alamo has a police force, a volunteer fire department, phone and internet services, a medical clinic and a public library. Pahranagat Valley Federal Credit Union and Nevada Bank and Trust offer financial services to residents. Alamo's first radio station, KQLN 91.3 FM, went on the air on November 17, 2010.
In May, 2011, the Nevada State Bank and Trust will be closing its branch, leaving the Pahranagat Valley Credit Union the only financial institution in the town.