Simonsville is a

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Clark County, Nevada Clark County is located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,265,461. Most of the county population resides in the Las Vegas Census County Divisions, which hold 1,771,945 people as of the 2010 Census, acros ...

, that was located on the east bank of the Muddy River west of the south end of the Overton Airport in the

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History

Simonsville was originally called Mill Point for the

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first built there by James Leithead. The name was changed to Simonsville in December 1865, named after Orrawell Simons who would build another mill there in 1866.Avertt, Walter R. Directory of Southern Nevada Place Names. Revised edition: printed by the author, 1963, p.70 Simonsville was abandoned in 1870 like most of the Mormon farms and settlements in the Moapa Valley, due to a tax dispute with the Nevada state government, and it was never reoccupied.

Today

The site of Simonsville is occupied by more recent structures.

References

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