Stateline

History

Most of the town and surrounding land has been maintained by the heirs of the historic Friday's Station of the Pony Express; it is leased to the casinos. The duplex naming of the community originated in part because of an interstate border dispute, resulting from differences in several boundary surveys. The erroneous 1872 Von Schmidt survey of the California–Nevada boundary found the stateline crossing U.S. 50 on the west edge of present-day Applebee's, and the east edge of the Ashley Marcus Gallery in Tahoe Crescent V Shopping Center in California. The community of Stateline, California, contended to be in Nevada, emerged just east to benefit from Nevada law—including tax-free status and later gambling which was legalized in 1931. However, an 1893 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (C.G.S.) placed the border several thousand feet east of 1872 Von Schmidt line, creating a discrepancy which left the community in legal jeopardy. The Stateline Country Club operated in the 1930s. By the mid-1950s to mid-1960s, gambling development moved east across the 1893 C.G.S. line to a new adjacent community of Edgewood, Nevada. After a 1980 US Supreme Court ruling, The currently accepted interstate border is marked by the 1893 US CGS Federal Survey Monuments No. 1,

Geography

Stateline is located at (38.970512, −119.945714). It lies on the southern shore of Lake Tahoe to the east of the California–Nevada state line from which it takes its name, and the city of South Lake Tahoe, California. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and (12.82%) is water.

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Largest nearby schools

• Douglas High School
  High · Minden · 1,643 students · 20.3:1 ratio
• George Whittell High School
  High · Zephyr Cove · 152 students · 13.8:1 ratio
• Zephyr Cove Elementary School
  Elementary · Zephyr Cove · 149 students · 16.6:1 ratio