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Pahrump is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Nye County, Nevada, about 50 miles west of Las Vegas and adjacent to the Nevada-California border, with a population of 44,738 at the 2020 census.

Pahrump had 19,117 households according to the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 American Community Survey estimates.

The name comes from the Southern Paiute name Pah-Rimpi, meaning Water Rock, for the abundant artesian wells in the valley, and the area was originally inhabited by the Southern Paiute before settlers arrived in the late 19th century and established large ranch holdings, mostly over 1,000 acres, growing alfalfa and cotton and raising livestock.

Until the 1960s Pahrump had no telephone service except a radio transmitter phone in a phone booth next to the small market and no paved roads, and a paved highway between Las Vegas and Pahrump was built in the late 1960s, later becoming Nevada State Route 160, with Nevada State Route 372 connecting Pahrump to Shoshone, California.

Pahrump's first high school, Pahrump Valley High School, was constructed in 1974, after high school students had commuted to Shoshone, and the town previously had only a two-room elementary school.

The census-designated place covers about 329 square miles in the Mojave Desert at an elevation of 2,697 feet, making it the largest census-designated place in the contiguous United States, and its ZIP codes are 89041, 89048, 89060 and 89061.

Pahrump grew from 7,424 people in 1990 to 24,631 in 2000, 36,441 in 2010 and 44,738 in 2020, and residential housing growth helped make Nye County one of the fastest growing counties nationwide in 2005.

Pahrump has unincorporated town status with a limited government that manages land-use planning, recreation and fire while leaving most services to Nye County, and in 2012 the town voted to disband its Town Board in favor of an advisory board under the County Commissioners, which was finalized in 2014 and took effect in January 2015.

On November 15, 2006, the Pahrump town board voted for an ordinance declaring English the official language of business, limiting the display of foreign flags and denying housing assistance and other welfare benefits to illegal immigrants, and the ordinance was repealed four months later following negative publicity.

Notable businesses in the area include the Spring Mountain Motor Sports Ranch, and Golden Entertainment operates three casinos in Pahrump, while two legal brothels, Sheri's Ranch and Chicken Ranch, are located on the outskirts of town.