Biohazard Cleanup Near Midtown Reno, NV

Reno is an incorporated city in Washoe County, Nevada, and the county seat, sitting in the Truckee River valley in the High Eastern Sierra foothills about 23 miles northeast of Lake Tahoe.

The city was founded on May 9, 1868, when the Central Pacific Railroad established a depot at Lake's Crossing, and it was incorporated on March 16, 1903.

Reno was named for Civil War Union Major General Jesse L. Reno, who was killed at the Battle of South Mountain, by railroad construction superintendent Charles Crocker.

Reno became the county seat of Washoe County in 1871, replacing Washoe City.

The 2020 census counted 264,165 people in Reno, up from 225,221 in 2010, making it the third most populous city in Nevada and the 78th most populous city in the United States.

The 2010 census counted 90,924 households in the city, with an average household size of 2.43 people.

Reno covers 111.70 square miles, of which 108.87 square miles is land, and sits at an elevation of 4,505 feet.

Reno is known as "The Biggest Little City in the World," a slogan adopted in 1929 for the Reno Arch, which was first erected on Virginia Street in 1926.

From the 1930s through the 1960s Reno was known as the "Divorce Capital of the World" after Nevada cut its residency requirement for divorce to six weeks in 1931.

Reno is home to the University of Nevada, Reno, the state's flagship public university, which was founded in Elko in 1874 and moved to Reno in the mid-1880s.