Editing Enterprise, Nevada (section)

==History==
The first inhabitants were the [[Southern Paiute|Paiute Indians]], who were spread across the [[Las Vegas Valley]]. In 1905, the railroad town of [[Arden, Nevada|Arden]] was formed for miners who worked at the nearby gypsum mines just west of the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://silverstateghosttowns.com/ardenplastermine.html|title=Arden Plaster Mine, NV|website=silverstateghosttowns.com|access-date=2018-02-11}}</ref> The area was part of [[Lincoln County, Nevada|Lincoln County]] until 1909, when [[Clark County, Nevada|Clark County]] was split off from Lincoln County.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.clarkcountynv.gov/public-communications/Pages/Clark-County-Kids-Corner-History.aspx |title=Clark County's History |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=clarkcountynv.gov |access-date=April 6, 2020}}</ref> The oldest structure in the area is a water tower, which was built in 1926.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7BX2_Arden_Water_Tower_Las_Vegas|title=Arden Water Tower – Las Vegas|website=www.waymarking.com|language=en|access-date=2018-02-11}}</ref>

References to the area as "Enterprise" date back to at least 1918, when county commissioners established an Enterprise school district.<ref>{{cite news|title=County board in regular session|newspaper=Las Vegas Age|date=January 12, 1918|page=1|via=Las Vegas–Clark County Library District|url=http://digital.lvccld.org/lvccg/image/51438.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919061344/http://digital.lvccld.org/lvccg/image/51438.pdf |archive-date=2020-09-19 |url-status=live|access-date=2018-06-04}}</ref> According to one historian, the word may simply have been chosen at that time as a positive-sounding name.<ref>{{cite news|title=Origin of many Clark County township names is a mystery|newspaper=Anthem View|location=Las Vegas|author=F. Andrew Taylor|date=August 3, 2010|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F1316569E1E17B088&rft_id=info%3Asid%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&svc_dat=AWNB&req_dat=1028A39C75C2B899|via=NewsBank}}</ref>

On April 21, 1958, [[United Airlines Flight 736]] and an Air Force jet collided into each other, causing 49 fatalities. The airliner crash site in 1958 was empty desert scrubland, but today commercial development near the intersection of [[Decatur Boulevard|South Decatur Boulevard]] and West Cactus Avenue, adjacent to the community of [[Southern Highlands, Nevada|Southern Highlands]], has encroached on the site. In 1999 a small metal cross was put up by the son of a victim as a memorial to the lives lost.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fatal Las Vegas crash in 1958 led to modern air safety system|newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal|author=Henry Brean|date=April 20, 2018|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/fatal-las-vegas-crash-in-1958-led-to-modern-air-safety-system/|access-date=2020-04-05}}</ref>

Enterprise was formed as an unincorporated town on December 17, 1996, in response to a petition from residents who hoped it would help preserve the community's semi-rural identity.<ref name=schweers>{{cite news|title=Commission creates town of Enterprise|newspaper=Las Vegas Sun|
author=Jeff Schweers|date=December 18, 1996|url=https://lasvegassun.com/news/1996/dec/18/commission-creates-town-of-enterprise/|access-date=2018-06-05}}</ref> This was made to prevent annexation by nearby [[Henderson, Nevada|Henderson]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Las Vegas: Bright lights, but not a big city|newspaper=Las Vegas Sun|
author=Steve Kanigher|date=July 18, 2003|url=https://lasvegassun.com/news/2003/jul/18/las-vegas-bright-lights-but-not-a-big-city/|access-date=2020-04-03}}</ref> Immediately afterwards, [[Clark County, Nevada|Clark County]] commissioners voted to annex about five square miles of land into neighboring [[Spring Valley, Nevada|Spring Valley]] that included the master-planned community of [[Rhodes Ranch]] and a regional park. The annexation plan was developed by commissioner [[Erin Kenny]]. The vote was almost unanimous, with the sole exception of [[Bruce L. Woodbury]] voting against annexation. The chairwoman of the county commission, Yvonne Atkinson Gates, was against the annexation, but voted for annexation anyway because she wanted to recall the situation after the next advisory board meeting in January 1997. Residents, both governmental and non-governmental, opposed the annexation because they had no say in the vote.<ref name=schweers/>

On January 19, 1999, an interlocal agreement was approved by the [[Clark County Commission]] and the [[Henderson, Nevada|Henderson]] City Council to annex about 5,000 to 6,000 acres of land into the City of Henderson, with most of the land belonging to the [[Bureau of Land Management]] southwest of the master-planned community of [[Anthem, Nevada|Anthem]], but also including 1,400 acres that were part of Enterprise.<ref name=annexation>{{cite news|title=County, Henderson forge annexation deal|newspaper=Las Vegas Sun|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=January 20, 1999|url=https://lasvegassun.com/news/1999/jan/20/county-henderson-forge-annexation-deal/|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref><ref name= snedeker>{{cite news|title=Enterprise Township at center of expansion|newspaper=Las Vegas Sun|author=Lisa Snedeker |date=June 22, 1999|url=https://lasvegassun.com/news/1999/jun/22/enterprise-township-at-center-of-expansion/|access-date=2020-05-01}}</ref> The city wanted to annex land so it could have an exit on [[Interstate 15]] (specifically the [[Sloan, Nevada|Sloan]] exit <ref name= snedeker/>), and so they could maintain Lake Mead Drive (now [[St. Rose Parkway]]). Residents of Enterprise did not approve of the annexation plan because they wanted to preserve their rural lifestyle. County commissioners told some residents that the county could not stop Henderson from annexing a piece of their town, and said that the interlocal agreement was the best they could do.<ref name=annexation/> This agreement stopped Henderson from annexing section 33 (which was a heavily populated section of Enterprise), and instead annex sections 26 and 34, which were, at the time, undeveloped.<ref name=annexation/>

Not long after the founding of Enterprise, population and development have seen a rapid growth, similar to many other communities in unincorporated Clark County. From 2000 to 2010, the population boosted from 14,108 residents to 108,481 in 2010; the number would more than double to 221,831 in 2020.