Back in the day, a fellow named Art Bell would sit down in his home studio in Pahrump, Nevada, flip on the microphone, and tell millions of overnight listeners about UFOs, ghosts, government secrets, and creatures nobody could quite explain. The show was Coast to Coast AM. It was huge. And the signal went out from right here in Pahrump, Nye County, Nevada.
Pahrump attracts the kind of person who wants room to do their own thing. Michael Jackson bought a place out here in 2008. Ronald Wayne, the third co-founder of Apple, retired here and quietly trades rare coins. The musical group Escape the Fate started in Pahrump before chasing the lights of Vegas, about 60 miles east. The town is what real-estate folks call an exurb - past the suburbs, into open desert - and it was one of the engines that made Nye County one of the fastest-growing counties in America back in 2005.
Now let's take a look at the parcel itself. 20,000 square feet. Almost half an acre. The official measurements: roughly 200 feet down either side, 105 across the front on Latigo Drive, and 95 across the back. Plenty of elbow room for whatever your imagination cooks up - and a whole lot more breathing space than the cookie-cutter residential lots people usually settle for.
Zoning is Village Residential and access is via dirt road - the kind of road that keeps the rumble of city traffic exactly where it belongs, which is somewhere else.
