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4 unusual facts about mesquite


Gospel Advocate

The Gospel Advocate also publishes Sunday School materials and operates Christian bookstores in Nashville and Mesquite, Texas.

Independent American Party of Nevada

The Nevada IAP finally achieved electoral success in the 1990s with the election of a County Commissioner in Nye County, and the election of Chuck Horne as the Mayor of Mesquite.

Taylor Lipsett

Andrew "Taylor" Lipsett (born in Mesquite, Texas on January 2, 1987) is an ice sledge hockey player and Paralympic Gold and bronze medalist.

The Afters

Havens and Fuqua first worked together in a Starbucks coffee shop in Mesquite, Texas, where they played for customers, before deciding to form a band.


Cactus mouse

Low average temperatures and lack of mesquite (Prosopis juliflora) might limit northern expansion.

Chihuahuan pocket mouse

The dominant vegetation in its habitat normally consists of plants such as mesquite, creosotebush, catclaw, and prickly pears.

Desert pocket mouse

These pocket mice live in soils that may be vegetated with creosote bush, palo verde, burroweed, mesquite, cholla and other cacti, and short, sparse grass, as well as in lower edges of alluvial fan with yucca, mesquite, grama, and prickle poppy.

Duffy's Peak

The soils of the area are moderately deep silt loams that support mesquite, yucca, cacti, and grasses.

John Horn

John Horn High School, a secondary school in Mesquite, Texas, United States

KATA

KATA-CD, a low-power television station (channel 50) licensed to serve Mesquite, Texas, United States

KELP

KELP-FM, a radio station (89.3 FM) licensed to Mesquite, New Mexico, United States

Keweenaw Underwater Preserve

One of the most recent large boats on the Great Lakes to be a total loss, the former United States Coast Guard cutter Mesquite, grounded off Keweenaw in 1989 and is now a diveable wreck in this preserve.

Kimberly Rivera

A long-time resident of Mesquite, Texas, Rivera worked at Walmart prior to her military service, meeting her future husband Mario there.

Light Crust Doughboys

In 1983, musician and producer Art Greenhaw booked the Doughboys to play at the Mesquite Folk Festival, which Greenhaw had founded.

M. Anthony Burns

He also created scholarship funds at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah, which to date have provided more than 100 scholarships, and has endowed four scholarships each at Wasatch High School in Heber City, Utah, and Virgin Valley High School in Mesquite, Nev.

Matt Every

Before he found success on any major golf tour after turning professional, he competed on The Golf Channel's original series The Big Break in Mesquite, Nevada.

Mesquite Tower

It stands between West Mesquite High School and Memorial Stadium.

Owned by the Mesquite Independent School District, it is a 61,000 watt radio tower used by the radio station KEOM which is also operated by Mesquite Independent School District.

Mormon Corridor

The Salt River Valley in western Wyoming, now known as Star Valley, was designated for settlement in August 1878, while Bunkerville and Mesquite, Nevada were settled in 1879 and 1880 respectively.

Palm Spring, San Diego County, California

Palm Spring, a spring in Mesquite Oasis, a desert oasis amidst a mesquite thicket and a few palms, close to Carrizo Creek, within the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego County, California.

Pliny Fisk III

When the Lo Vaca Gathering Co shut off the natural gas supply to the small town of Crystal City, Texas in the fall of 1977, Fisk developed the idea of using Army surplus wood stoves and abundant mesquite for heating.

Rick Upchurch

Upchurch currently resides in Mesquite, Nevada, and frequently visits nearby communities such as St. George, Utah, and Logandale, Nevada, to sign autographs for Broncos fans.

Swakop River

In the arid lower reaches there is a more limited flora on the Swakop River valley itself, with the typical gallery vegetation from Ana Trees (Faidherbia albida), tamarisk (Tamarix), camel thorn (Acacia erioloba), Salvadora, various fig species, Euclea and also tobacco (Nicotiana spp.), Jimsonweed (Datura) and mesquite (Prosopis spp.) as invasive species.

Tempe Butte

Despite intensive development, the butte and its immediate surroundings continue to support a variety of native vegetation, including saguaro, Buckhorn Cholla, barrel cactus, creosote bush, palo verde, and mesquite.

Tonto National Monument

Other common plants include: cholla, prickly pear, hedgehog, and barrel cactus (flowering from April to June); yucca, sotol, and agave; creosote bush and ocotillo; palo verde and mesquite trees; an amazing variety of colorful wild flowers in good years (February to March); and a lush riparian area which supports large Arizona Walnut, Arizona Sycamore, and hackberry trees.

Virgin Valley High School

Virgin Valley High School is a high school in Mesquite, Nevada under the jurisdiction of the Clark County School District.

West Mesquite High School

Memorial Stadium, is on campus along with the Mesquite Tower which broadcasts the school district's own radio station, KEOM.


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