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The Eureka County Economy (Continued)
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Three other measures of county economic activity are room tax, gaming license collections and real estate sales. Eureka County's 2005 Comprehensive Annual Financial report shows that Eureka County has 88 motel rooms, 8 eating establishments, 5 gaming and entertainment establishments, and 3 RV parks.
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Gaming license collections have remained steady, albeit with a large jump in collections in 2001.
In August, 2006, real estate agents with multiple listing services who served Eureka County reported no land or houses for sale in Eureka County. This tight market may reflect high demand for county housing as the Ruby Hill/Archimedes Mine hires and starts production.
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1. Eureka County Employment
2. Labor Force Data & Resident Labor Force vs. Jobs in Eureka County
3. Commuting Patterns in Eureka County
4. Eureka County Components of Personal Income & Per Capita Income
Personal Income by Major Source and Earning by Industry. 25 April 2006. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts. 1 August 2006. http://www.bea.gov/bea/regional/data.htm
5. Eureka County Median Household Income
6. Gold Mining Profile
7. Other Minerals and Energy Resources
8. Eureka County Agricultural Statistics
9. Eureka County Taxable Sales
10. Eureka Sentinel Museum Visitors
11. Room Tax and Gaming Tax Collections
12. Annual Average Daily Traffic Counts on Selected Eureka County Roads & Traffic Counts on Selected Rural Nevada Arterials
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The museum displays artifacts from Eureka's 1870s mining era and contains a complete nineteenth century press room. The ground floor of the building was made into a county historical museum in 1982, and in the year 2000 the museum expanded to include both floors of the building. The museum is open seven days a week from May through October. Visitation to the museum has been increasing over the two decades since its opening, but not steadily. Visitation to the museum reached a high of 5,083 visitors in 1995, then declined in subsequent years.
The museum is an important part of Eureka's historical and architectural heritage, and as such serves as an indicator of the potential for development of historical tourism in the region.
Visitation to the museum also is a rough indicator of the current level of tourism in the town. The museum is within the Eureka Historic District, designated in 1973. Also in the historic district is the Eureka Opera House, built in 1880 and restored in 1994.
The line graph and chart links below show that average daily traffic on U.S. Highway 50 increased annually until 1999, decreased in 2000, increased again in subsequent years, then decreased significantly in 2004. Traffic on SR 278 increased to 2001, then decreased again by 2004.. Average daily traffic on Interstate 80 grew until 2000, then diminshed somewhat in subsequent years. U.S. Highway 50 receives locally generated traffic in Eureka town, with average daily traffic counts over twice the amount as that measured at the traffic recorder located on the more rural segment of the highway to the west of the town. The traffic counts on the rural section of the highway therefore more closely represent through traffic on U.S. Highway 50. Since this traffic count would include recreationists, tourists, and other travelers, this traffic count is a measure both of any success in previous economic development efforts targeting out-of-area visitors, as well as one estimate of the size of market for any potential visitor-or-tourism-related economic development efforts. In comparison to other rural principal arterials in Nevada, U.S. Highway 50 in the Eureka vicinity receives a mid-range of traffic. The chart below shows traffic counts on selected sections of other rural Nevada arterials.
