The Truckee Meadows (Washo: Welganuk ) is a valley in Northern Nevada which overlaps with a small portion of Reno and Sparks, including both downtown areas. The valley is approximately 10 miles square. Reno is 69 square miles. Sparks is 24 square miles. Approx. 10% of Reno-Sparks is part of the Truckee Meadows.
Truckee Meadows has been incorrectly used interchangeably with the Reno-Sparks incorporated areas, which are not the same as the Truckee Meadows. The Truckee Meadow river basin follows the meadows along the Truckee River.
The Truckee Meadows is named for the Truckee River, which crosses the valley from west to east and goes through downtown Reno.
Famous quotes containing the word meadows:
“Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)