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Bunkerville is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, with a population of 1,069 at the 2020 census, down from 1,303 in 2010.

Bunkerville was settled in 1877 by Mormon pioneers from Utah and is named after Edward Bunker, who moved his large polygamous family 25 miles southwest from Santa Clara, Utah, with Brigham Young's permission.

The residents established a communal United Order effort, sharing the work and its fruits with all land held in common, and the communal experiment ended in 1880.

The CDP covers about 10.91 square miles, of which 10.33 square miles is land and 0.58 square miles is water, at an elevation of 1,532 feet.

The 2000 census counted 258 households in the Bunkerville CDP, with an average household size of 3.93 people.

According to the Federal Writers' Project, Bunkerville had 287 inhabitants in 1941.

In the 1950s, Bunkerville was downwind of nuclear test sites, which caused a spike in childhood leukemia and other cancers in the region, and residents recall playing in nuclear fallout as if it were snow.

In the spring of 2014, Bunkerville was the scene of the Bundy standoff, an armed confrontation between protesters and law enforcement over the non-payment of grazing fees by local rancher Cliven Bundy.

Bunkerville has a hot desert climate, and its recorded high temperature is 122 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bunkerville's ZIP code is 89007, and its area codes are 702 and 725.