Buffalo Bill's Casino Nevada: fixed location and documented straight-line distances

Buffalo Bill's in Primm, Nevada sits 40.7 miles from Las Vegas in straight-line distance. Road distance is longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time.

What it can do is fix the venue on the map and show the documented great-circle distances that have been published against named reference points. That is useful when you want to understand where the property is in regional terms without slipping into guessed route mileage.

The venue's fixed position

Publicly published reference sources place Buffalo Bill's at latitude 35.614945 and longitude -115.384504, in Primm, Nevada. Those coordinates give the stable part of the answer: the venue's position does not change, even if branding, ownership, or operating details do.

The same published sources describe the property as having 1,700 slot machines, 1,242 hotel rooms, and an opening date of May 14, 1994. Ownership is documented as JETT Gaming. Facility figures like machine counts and room counts describe a documented point in time and can change as properties are rebuilt, repurposed, or remeasured.

Documented straight-line distances

The table below lists every injected venue-to-reference pairing available for this article. Every figure is a great-circle measurement, which means a straight line on the earth's surface rather than a road route.

Why straight-line distance and real travel are different

A straight-line figure is a map relationship, not a route. It ignores mountain barriers, water crossings, the shape of the road network, detours around protected land or built-up areas, and the fact that roads rarely connect two coordinates in a perfectly direct line.

That gap becomes larger when a trip crosses state lines, skirts terrain, or depends on a sparse road grid. For that reason, a great-circle number is useful for orientation, while a route planner is the right tool for actual road mileage and current travel conditions.

This article therefore keeps the two ideas separate. It gives only the documented straight-line figures and does not convert them into driving miles or time.

Where Buffalo Bill's sits in regional terms

The venue is in Primm, in the state of Nevada. Using the documented coordinates and the published reference pairs, it can be placed broadly southeast of Reno, northwest of Phoenix, northeast of Los Angeles, and southwest of Las Vegas only in the sense that Las Vegas is the named nearby reference at 40.7 straight-line miles.

The coordinates also place it in the southern part of Nevada rather than the northern part. That matters when a reader is trying to understand whether the property belongs to the Las Vegas orbit, the Reno orbit, or a different part of the state; the published distance table clearly puts it much closer in straight-line terms to Las Vegas and Henderson than to Reno.

For wider context, the table shows how the venue relates to reference points across the West, Midwest, South, and East. Distances such as 195.2 straight-line miles to Los Angeles, 240.6 to Phoenix, 635.3 to Denver, and 901.8 to Seattle are not route plans, but they do show the venue's position within a larger North American map.

How to use this location data if your own start point is different

Your starting point may not be one of the named references in the table. In that case, the venue's position is fixed but your position is not, so the practical method is to use the coordinates 35.614945, -115.384504 in any mapping tool and measure from your own chosen origin.

If the exact pair you care about is not listed in the published distance set, this article cannot measure that segment. What it can do is give you the venue's city and state, its coordinates, and the existing reference pairs so you can place it accurately before checking a route on a live map.

This distinction matters because readers often ask a distance question when what they really need is a route question. Straight-line distance tells you where the property sits; a current mapping service tells you how a present-day road trip would be laid out.

What to confirm before you go

Several practical details can change and are not part of a fixed-location article. Before travelling, confirm the venue's current access arrangements, parking setup, hotel availability, and any on-site amenity details through the property's own official information channels.

If you are comparing this venue with another stop, confirm current branding and ownership as well. Publicly published reference sources identify Buffalo Bill's as owned by JETT Gaming, but casino properties can change hands, rebrand, or revise facility counts over time.

For navigation, use the documented coordinates and then check a live route planner for real roads, closures, and border-crossing implications where relevant. That is the reliable way to bridge the gap between a fixed map position and a real journey.

FAQ

How far is Buffalo Bill's from Las Vegas?

The documented figure is 40.7 miles in straight-line distance. That is a great-circle measurement between mapped points, not a road route, so it should not be read as driving mileage. For an actual trip, use the venue coordinates in a live mapping service and let that service calculate the current route.

Is Buffalo Bill's in Las Vegas or somewhere else in Nevada?

Publicly published reference sources place the venue in Primm, Nevada, at latitude 35.614945 and longitude -115.384504. So the property is not in Las Vegas itself. The Las Vegas figure in this article is a straight-line reference distance that helps place Buffalo Bill's within southern Nevada.

Can this article tell me the driving distance from my location?

No. This article only publishes documented straight-line distances for the named reference points shown in the table, and road distance is always longer. If your own origin is different, use the venue coordinates with your preferred mapping tool to measure from your position and check the current route.

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