Editing Mesquite, Nevada (section)

==History==
[[File:Franklin S Leavitt residence Mesquite Clark County Nevada.jpeg|thumb|left|150px|Home of Mormon pioneer Franklin S. Leavitt, c. 1900]]
Mesquite was settled by [[Mormon]] pioneers in 1880, who called it ''Mesquite Flat''. The community was finally established on the third attempt after having been flooded out from the waters of the Virgin River. The name was later shortened to Mesquite, and the city was incorporated 1984. The community was named for the [[mesquite]] timber near the original town site.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Federal Writers' Project |url=https://dwgateway.library.unr.edu/keck/histtopoNV/Origin_of_Place_Names_Files/1941NevadaOriginofNames-pt1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409171723/http://dwgateway.library.unr.edu/keck/histtopoNV/Origin_of_Place_Names_Files/1941NevadaOriginofNames-pt1.pdf |archive-date=2018-04-09 |url-status=live |title=Origin of Place Names: Nevada |publisher=W.P.A. |year=1941 |location=Reno, Nevada |pages=16}}</ref> Mesquite, like nearby [[Bunkerville, Nevada|Bunkerville]], had its origins in farming. The Peppermill Mesquite casino, which opened in the 1970s, drove Mesquite's diversified economy.  The city incorporated in 1984 and established a master development plan during the early 1990s.<ref name="cnn2011" /> In the mid-1990s, more casinos opened.<ref name="MNH" /> By 2006, Mesquite was one of the fastest-growing small towns in the United States, though the [[late-2000s recession]] led to the closure of the [[Oasis (hotel and casino)|Oasis]] (formerly the Peppermill) casino.<ref name="cnn2011" />