{"id":44763,"count":2,"description":"Beatty (pronounced BAY-dee) is a census-designated place (CDP) along the Amargosa River in Nye County in the U.S. state of Nevada. U.S. Route 95 runs through the CDP, which lies between Tonopah, about 90 miles (140\u00a0km) to the north, and Las Vegas, about 120 miles (190\u00a0km) to the southeast. State Route 374 connects Beatty to Death Valley National Park, about 8 miles (13\u00a0km) to the west. The population was 1,154 at the 2000 census.\nBefore the arrival of non-indigenous people in the 19th\u00a0century, the region was home to groups of Western Shoshone. Established in 1905, the community was named after Montillus (Montillion) Murray \"Old Man\" Beatty, who settled on a ranch in the Oasis Valley in 1896 and became Beatty's first postmaster. With the arrival of the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad in 1905, the CDP became a railway center for the Bullfrog Mining District, including mining towns such as nearby Rhyolite. Starting in the 1940s, Nellis Air Force Base and other federal installations...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/beatty\/","name":"Beatty","slug":"beatty","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/44763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=44763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}