Buffalo Bill's Casino-Resort Primm Nevada: Fixed Location and 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.

For this venue, the fixed point is documented: Primm, Nevada, at coordinates 35.614945, -115.384504. Publicly published reference sources also describe the property as having 1,700 slot machines, 1,242 hotel rooms, opening on May 14, 1994, and being owned by JETT Gaming; figures like room counts and machine counts describe a documented point in time and can change as properties are rebuilt, repurposed, or restructured.

Where the venue is fixed

The physical subject here is Buffalo Bill's in Primm, in the state of Nevada. Its documented coordinates place it in the Southern California–Southern Nevada desert corridor rather than inside a downtown grid, waterfront district, or urban core.

Because the venue's location is fixed and your starting point is not, the most reliable way to read the distance figures below is as point-to-point geographic comparisons. They show how far the venue is from each named reference point as the crow flies, not what a car, bus, or any other route on the ground would have to cover.

Documented straight-line distances

The table below reproduces every injected venue-to-place pair available for this property. Each figure is a great-circle measurement.

Why straight-line and real-world travel differ

A straight-line figure connects two coordinates through geometric space. Real travel has to obey the shape of the road network, the availability of crossings, the need to route around terrain, and the fact that state lines do not create a direct transport corridor by themselves.

That difference matters especially in desert and mountain-edge areas, where roads may be sparse compared with the simplicity of a map line. The same issue appears across water, inside built-up metro networks, and whenever the practical route must bend around protected land, developed land, or gaps in the local street pattern.

For that reason, a great-circle figure is best used as a spatial reference rather than a trip plan. It tells you whether one reference point is geographically nearer or farther than another, but it does not tell you what the on-the-ground route will demand.

How to read the venue's regional position

The documented coordinates place Buffalo Bill's west of Las Vegas and east of Los Angeles when compared with those named reference points in the matrix. It is also south of Reno and north of Palm Springs in broad regional terms, which helps situate Primm within Nevada and the wider U.S. Southwest without inventing any unsourced route detail.

Within Nevada, the available pairings show the venue much closer in straight-line terms to Henderson at 36.6 miles and Las Vegas at 40.7 miles than to Reno at 363.0 miles. That is a useful reminder that a Nevada venue can be geographically tied much more closely to the state's southern population centers than to places elsewhere in the same state.

Documented venue scale and identity

Publicly published reference sources identify this property as Buffalo Bill's, also styled in the keyword as Buffalo Bill's Casino-Resort Primm Nevada and Buffalo Bill's Resort and Casino Primm Nevada. The venue is documented in Primm, Nevada, with 1,700 slot machines and 1,242 hotel rooms.

The same reference sources place its opening on May 14, 1994 and identify JETT Gaming as owner in the cited description. As with all casino-property facts, ownership, branding, room inventory, and gaming-floor figures can change over time, so readers should treat these as documented historical or reference figures rather than a guarantee of the present-day setup.

If your starting point is not in the table

This article can only measure the pairs listed above. If the place you care about is not one of those named reference points, the honest answer is that this page cannot publish that distance.

The practical workaround is simple: use the documented coordinates, 35.614945 and -115.384504, in any mainstream mapping tool and compare your own starting point there. If you do that, keep the distinction clear between a coordinate-based straight line and the route distance that the mapping tool will calculate on roads.

What to confirm before you go

Before making plans around this property, confirm the live details that do change: current operating status, current hotel availability, parking arrangements, on-site amenities, and any present access instructions the property itself wants visitors to follow. The authoritative place for those items is the venue's own official website, booking page, or guest-services contact channel.

Also confirm that the venue name and ownership you are using match the current branding. Casino properties are often sold, rebranded, renovated, or partially repurposed, so a location article like this is best used to understand where the venue sits and how its published reference distances compare, not as a substitute for current trip-planning information.

FAQ

Is Buffalo Bill's closer to Las Vegas or Los Angeles in straight-line terms?

Based on the published distance pairs available here, Buffalo Bill's is 40.7 miles from Las Vegas in straight-line distance and 195.2 miles from Los Angeles in straight-line distance. That makes Las Vegas the nearer of those two reference points geographically, but it still does not state a road mileage or travel time.

Can this article tell me how far Buffalo Bill's is from my location?

Only if your location matches one of the named reference points already listed in the distance table. If it does not, this page cannot measure that pair. In that case, use the venue's documented coordinates, 35.614945 and -115.384504, in a mapping tool and compare your own starting point there.

What fixed facts about the property are documented here besides distance?

The published reference sources used for this article place the venue in Primm, Nevada, identify 1,700 slot machines and 1,242 hotel rooms, give an opening date of May 14, 1994, and name JETT Gaming as owner in the cited description. Those are reference figures, not promises about the property's current configuration.

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