About Great Basin College

Great Basin College is a public literary in Elko, Nevada. Opened in 1967 as Elko College, it was higher renamed to Northern Nevada College and after that to its current name. It has 3,836 students and is a advocate of the Nevada System of Higher Education.

Coordinates: 40°50′N 115°46′W / 40.833°N 115.767°W / 40.833; -115.767 Elko (Shoshoni: Natakkoa, “Rocks Piled upon One Another”) is the largest city in and county seat of Elko County, Nevada, United States. With a 2020 population of 20,467, Elko is currently growing at a rate of 0.31% annually and its population has increased by 11.86% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 18,297 in 2010. Elko serves as the economic hub of the Ruby Valley, a region in the proclaim of a population of exceeding 55,000. Elko is 21 miles from Lamoille Canyon and the Ruby Mountains famously dubbed the Swiss Alps of Nevada, providing year round access to recreation including hiking, skiing and hunting with permission to more than twenty alpine lakes. The city straddles the Humboldt River. Most of the residents in Elko bring to life within the Tree Streets, houses lined behind trees and greenery. Spring Creek, Nevada, serves as a bedroom community 6 miles from the city subsequently a population of 13,805.

Elko is the principal city of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Elko and Eureka counties. It is the largest city for higher than 130 miles (210 km) in anything directions, making it, as its city wise saying states, “The Heart of Northeast Nevada”.

It is home to Great Basin College, as without difficulty as to the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office serving most of northern and central Nevada.