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Introduction

This is an annotated list of databases produced by Nevada State Agencies listed by database subject. It was last checked for broken links on December 4, 2017.

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About Nevada

Nevada Facts and State Emblems

Agriculture & Food Sources

Certified Applicators of Restricted-use Pesticides
Search for a certified restricted-use pesticide applicator by location, last name, certification number or certification category.
Nevada Agricultural Publications
This collection includes more than 1000 full-text publications, primarily from the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station and Nevada Cooperative Extension, highlighting the history of agriculture in Nevada. 1888-present.

Business, Finance & Economy

Nevada Business Search
Search for businesses in Nevada by name (includes keyword), entity number, officer, or resident agent.
Silver Flume - Nevada's Business Portal
SilverFlume guides you through the sequence of steps required to start a business. It also has services for existing businesses, such as business license renewal.

Crime, Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement

Courts

Find a Court
Find the Nevada court you need when you search by jurisdiction, along with current contact information and websites.
Supreme Court Document Search
Search annual reports, legal forms and much more.

Offenders

Nevada Offender Tracking Information System
Find inmate location and status, searchable by name or system ID.

Education

Teacher Licensure
Search for the credentials of a public school teacher by entering the teacher's name or license number.

Government Agencies & Elected Officials

Nevada Legislators, 1861 to Current
Search for biographical information on state legislators by name, years in office, house, or keyword.
Online Services
Open this link for Department of Motor Vehicle services available online. These include printing off your driving record, renewing your vehicle registration or drivers license, getting a duplicate license or searching for a personalized license plate.
State Phone Directory
Search by name, job title or department.
University of Nevada Las Vegas Employee Directory
Search by first or last name, job title or department.
University of Nevada Reno Employee Directory
Search by first or last name, department, phone number or title.
Who's My Legislator? What's My District?
Find your legislator by your address or by clicking on a map.

Government Finances & Contracts

Unclaimed Property Database
Search by name to find money or property owed to you or your business by the State of Nevada.

Health, Medicine & Safety

License Verification - Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners
You can search for Medical Doctors, Physician Assistants, Practitioners of Respiratory Care or Perfusionists licensed by the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners. You can search by first or last name, city, state, county or zip code to reveal contact and licensing information, type of practice, and disciplinary action, if any, taken by the state board against the practitioner.
License Verification - Nevada State Board of Osteopathic Medice
A search by doctor's or physician assistant's first or last name or license number reveals contact and licensing information, type of practice, and disiplinary action, if any, taken by the state board against the doctor.
Nevada Instant Atlas
The Nevada Instant Atlas provides visual display of important data on 17 counties in Nevada. This data is compiled from over 50 sources to include information on population, demographic characteristics, social and economic characteristics, health insurance coverage, population health, healthcare workforce and healthcare resources. Hundreds of variables and outcomes are showcased in maps, graphs and data resources that can be easily downloaded and used in research reports.

History, People & Culture

Digital Collections at University of Nevada, Reno
The role of UNR Digital Collections is to develop and manage digital collections and online exhibits in collaboration with other Library and University departments, and to provide long-term preservation of and access to UNR’s digital assets.
Nevada's Historical Markers
Search by keyword, city or county list or by map.
Nevada Historical Census
Customize a search of any or all of the Nevada Censuses data between 1860 and 1920.
Tahoe Resources
Streaming videos, special reports, and historic documents intended to complement the content of the Tahoe Research, Scholarship and Outreach website

Arts and Entertainment

Art Collection - University of Nevada, Reno
This collection contains 299 paintings in the Special Collections Department of the UNR Library and features work by Western artists, including Maynard Dixon, Theodore Waddell, Will James, and Lorenzo Latimer, as well as Mildred Lane, Hildegard Herz, and Minerva Pierce, all of whom were founding members of Reno's Latimer Art Club.
Menus: the Art of Dining
Hundreds of menus from throughout the world in UNLV digital collections.
Showgirls
Drawings and photographs of Las Vegas showgirls in UNLV 's digital collections.

Land Records

Nevada State Land Patents
A collection of land patents comprising 24 volumes with nearly 14,000 patents. Searchable by name or patent number.or you can browse the collection by date range.
State Lands Patent Database
Searchable by name of patentee, township and range, and patent number. The official land patent records are at the Nevada State Archives.

Libraries, Library Catalogs, Archives

CLAN Catalog
Search for materials available at the Nevada State Library and Archives or other libraries across the state in the Cooperative Libraries Automated Network. You can also use the left side menu to find information on specific topics including searchable copies of several "old" Nevada newspapers.
Nevada Legislative Research Library Online Catalog
Search the library's non-circulating collection by keyword, title or publication year.
Nevada State Library, Archives and Public Records Digital Collections.
Digital copies of original manuscripts, photos, records and publications produced by Nevada government agencies. You can browse individual collections or search individual collections or all collections.

Oral Histories

African American Experience in Las Vegas
Users who enter this website will discover a single portal that connects stories and historical evidence of the African American experience. This collection includes oral histories and photographs documenting the African American Experience in Las Vegas.
Margaret M. Wheat Collection
This collection includes 50 selected Paiute and Shoshone oral histories recorded by Margaret M. Wheat between the 1940's and the 1960's.
Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
Transcripts of oral histories from interviews with a wide range of people associated with the Nevada Test Site.
University of Nevada Reno Oral History Archive
This archive of 200+ primary source oral histories documents aspects of the history and culture of Nevada and the Intermountain West.

Photographs

Campus Images
This collection of over 5,600 images reflect the University of Nevada, Reno's history from its founding in Elko to its present location and growing campus.
History of Medicine
These 686 images were selected from 7,000+ photographs that relate to the University of Nevada School of Medicine; the Nevada State Medical Association; and the Reno Surgical Society. They document over 100 years of healthcare for Nevada's citizens, including 19th-century frontier military medicine in the Great Basin.
Images of Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe has been called the jewel of the Sierra. The 1,000+ images in this collection represent only a small portion of the photographic images of Lake Tahoe held by the Special Collections Department of the UNR Library.
Just Passin' Through
The 170+ images in this collection document places and activities along the Lincoln and Victory highways as they cross Nevada, eastern California and western Utah, as well as Reno's Transcontinental Highways Exposition of 1927 celebrating the completion of the two roads.
Photograph Collections
The 3,300+ images in this collection are but a fraction of the more than 200,000 images housed in the Special Collections Department of the UNR Library that document life in Nevada and the surrounding region from the 1860's to the present.
Sagebrush Vernacular
Sagebrush Vernacular is an exhibition of 120 photographs selected from 463 photographs of rural Nevada architecture taken by advanced photography students from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years
Brings together a wide range of original source materials found in widely diverse collections from UNLV Libraries Special Collections, the Nevada State Museum, and Historical Society in Las Vegas and the Clark County Heritage Museum.
Welcome home, Howard!
A collection of images of one of our most famous Nevadans, Howard Hughes.

Jobs & Unemployment

Jobs Home Page
Search job openings with the State of Nevada and apply online.
Nevada Labor Market Information
Premier source for Nevada workforce information. Advanced users can utilize data sets to create custom data extracts.

Laws, Legislative Materials, and Legal Issues

Legislative Histories, 1865 to current
Do you want to see if the Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau has compiled a legislative history on a law you're interested in? Search by bill type, number, year or keyword.
Legislative Session Information
Find legislative session information back to the 63rd (1985) session with full text of bills and resolutions back to the 68th (1995) session.
Nevada Administrative Code
Simple and advanced search options allow you to search full text of the administrative regulations in the Nevada Administrative Code (NAC). It is easier to find relevant information by using the table of contents or index pages.
Nevada Legal Forms
You can find Nevada legal forms by location and category.
Nevada Register
Search administrative regulations including those not yet codified.
Nevada Revised Statutes
Simple and advanced search options allow you to search full text of the Nevada Revised Statutes. It is easier to find relevant information by using the table of contents or index pages.
Official Legislative Acts
To view a listing of recent legislation filed with the Secretary of State's Office, select a legislative session and a statute type, then click "View Legislation." The data on this site will be updated regularly when a legislative session is in progress.
Statutes of Nevada
Search each session, 10th Special Session (1964) to the present.
Water Rights Database
Water rights data for the entire state of Nevada is available on this site. The data includes information about current ownership, the point of diversion and place of use of the water right, diversion rates, manner of use, well log information, protest and ruling information, as well as dates required for filing various proofs. Other data available includes scanned documents such as certificates, book records (permits), maps, and rulings.

Licensing

Licensed Contractors
Search by license number, principal name or company name.
Nevada CPA Licensees
Search for individual CPAs or accounting firms, by name or license number.

Military & Veterans

NVVetNet
You can search from the home page or you can search the directory, news or calendar by keyword or location.

Statistics, Data & Mapping/GIS

Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development Data Portal
This page provides useful data and links to get information about Nevada’s economy and its consumers. Click on any of the counties on the map to get information on population, employment, spending and other key market metrics.
Nevada in Maps
This collection includes over 4,500 maps and atlases on Nevada and the Great Basin from seven map collections throughout the state of Nevada ranging chronologically from 1750 into the 21st century.
Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps
Hundreds of maps of Las Vegas and southern Nevada dating from the 17th century to the present.

Transportation

Nevada 511 Road Conditions
Map of current road conditions from the Nevada Department of Transportation. You can also get information by phone by dialing 511 or 1-877-NV-ROADS.
Traffic Cameras
Allows you to view current traffic conditions at cameras placed in Las Vegas, Reno and Elko.

Voting & Elections

Candidate Contribution and Expense Reports
Find financial disclosure of contributions and campaign expenses, searchable by candidate name.
Voter Registration Search
This is great way to find your own status as a registered voter, your caucus location, polling place, and more.

Empty Subjects - Can you help?

As of March 2017, we were unable to locate publicly searchable databases produced by a Nevada State Agency in these areas:

Community & Social Services
Earth & the Environment
Recreation, Travel & Tourism
Science & Technology

If you know of Nevada produced databases in these or other subjects not shown here, please use the "email me" link in the Documents Specialist box above to drop us a line.