Silverton's Fixed Location, Not Its Blackjack Rules

The question asks about a table rule, but this article can only give you a fixed position

Silverton sits at 36.0418 latitude and -115.1837 longitude, which places it in Enterprise, Nevada, about 9.1 straight-line miles from the reference point labeled Las Vegas. That figure is a great-circle measurement, not a road distance. The question of whether Silverton's blackjack pays 3 to 2 is not something this article can answer, because no payout ratio for any table game at this venue appears in the documented facts available here.

What this article can do is describe the venue's fixed geographic position, explain why straight-line distance differs from the route a car travels, and give you the full set of documented straight-line distances to reference cities. Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time in any form.

The venue opened on May 20, 1994, and is owned and operated by Ed Roski Jr. Publicly published reference sources describe it as including 1,200 slot machines and 18 table games, with a hotel of around 1,000 rooms. Those figures describe a documented point in time, not necessarily today's layout, because properties are rebuilt and expanded.

Why the straight-line number is not your drive

A great-circle distance is the shortest path between two points on the Earth's surface, as if you drew a line across a globe. It ignores everything that stands between you and the venue: mountain ranges, lakes, rivers, city street grids, interstate interchanges, and state borders. The route a vehicle takes must follow roads that exist, and those roads rarely run along the shortest geometric path.

Terrain is the first source of divergence. Nevada's basin-and-range geography means a straight line from Silverton to many reference cities crosses ridges and valleys that no highway follows exactly. Water is the second: a straight line to a coastal city may cross a bay or inlet that a road must circle around. Road networks are the third: highways connect population centers, not arbitrary coordinate pairs, so the path bends toward interchanges and bypasses.

Crossing a state line adds no distance by itself, but it often changes the road network's logic. A straight line from Silverton to, say, Topeka, Kansas, crosses several state boundaries, and the actual route follows corridors that were laid out for freight and settlement patterns, not for geometric efficiency. The result is that a drive is always longer than the straight-line figure, sometimes by a large margin, and the margin is not constant from one destination to another.

Where Silverton sits and what that means for orientation

Silverton's coordinates place it in Enterprise, Nevada, an unincorporated town in Clark County. The venue sits south of the main Las Vegas resort corridor: the documented straight-line distance to the reference point labeled Las Vegas is 9.1 miles, and the distance to the reference point labeled Henderson is 11.2 miles. Those two figures, taken together, place the venue in the southern part of the Las Vegas Valley.

The venue is not on the Strip. The straight-line distance to the reference point labeled Bourbon Street is 5.1 miles, which tells you it is close to that particular reference point, but that does not mean the venue is on the Strip itself. The coordinates and the city name are the fixed facts; everything else about the neighborhood is a matter of current local knowledge, not something this article can assert.

Because the venue is in Nevada, many readers approach it from other states. The straight-line distances below give you a sense of scale, but they are not travel directions. A reader in California, Arizona, Utah, or Texas will find that the straight-line figure understates the actual road distance by a margin that depends on the specific route.

Documented straight-line distances from Silverton

The table below lists every reference point for which a straight-line distance to Silverton is documented. Each figure is a great-circle measurement, not a driving distance. The table is long because the documented set is large, and it is included in full so you can find your own reference point without guessing.

Every figure in this table is a straight-line measurement. None of them is a road distance, and none of them implies a travel time. The table includes multiple entries for the same city where the documented set contains more than one label for that place, because the labels themselves are part of the documented record.

If the pair you want is not in the table

The table above contains every straight-line pair documented for Silverton. If the city or venue you are starting from does not appear there, this article cannot measure that specific distance. Do not interpolate a figure from a nearby city, because the Earth's curvature and the road network make such guesses unreliable.

What you can do is use the coordinates given at the top of this article. Silverton's fixed position is 36.0418 latitude and -115.1837 longitude. Enter those coordinates into any mapping tool along with your own starting point, and the tool will compute both a straight-line figure and a road route. That is the correct way to measure from your own position.

The venue's location is fixed; your location is not. A distance article can only anchor one end of the measurement. The other end is something only you can supply, and the tool you use to supply it is the authoritative source for the result.

What to confirm before you go

Because this article cannot answer the blackjack payout question, the authoritative source for that information is the venue's own table games page or its published rules sheet. Table rules change, and a venue may run different rules at different tables or at different times. The only way to know what a specific table pays on a specific day is to ask the venue directly or read its current posted rules.

Facility figures also change. The documented 1,200 slot machines, 18 table games, and around 1,000 hotel rooms come from publicly published reference sources that describe a particular point in time. Renovations, expansions, and reconfigurations alter those numbers. If the count matters to you, confirm it on the venue's own site before you rely on it.

Ownership and branding can change as well. The venue opened on May 20, 1994, under a different operating name, and the current owner is Ed Roski Jr. Sales and rebrands are common in this industry, so the name on the building today may not match the name in an older reference. Check the venue's current published materials for the present operating name and status.

FAQ

Does Silverton pay 3 to 2 on blackjack?

This article cannot answer that. No blackjack payout ratio for Silverton appears in the documented facts available here, and table rules change over time and vary by table. The authoritative source is the venue's own current table games page or posted rules sheet. Confirm the payout before you sit down, because a rule printed in an old guide may no longer apply.

How far is Silverton from the Las Vegas Strip?

The documented straight-line distance from Silverton to the reference point labeled Las Vegas is 9.1 miles, measured as a great-circle line. Road distance is longer, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time. The venue's coordinates are 36.0418, -115.1837 in Enterprise, Nevada, south of the main resort corridor.

Is Silverton in Las Vegas or a separate city?

Silverton's documented city is Enterprise, Nevada, an unincorporated town in Clark County. Its coordinates place it about 9.1 straight-line miles from the reference point labeled Las Vegas and 11.2 straight-line miles from the reference point labeled Henderson. The venue is not inside the Las Vegas city limits as documented here.

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