Moapa Valley is an unincorporated town in Clark County, Nevada, United States.

Around 500 A.D., farming supplanted hunting as the major food source for the people known as "Basketmakers".

By 600 A.D., Ancestral Puebloan people began building their dwellings above ground, using wood and brush plastered with adobe.

Farming was a well-established practice with corn, beans, squash, and cotton being the primary crops.

The Puebloans also hunted mule deer, desert bighorn sheep, rabbits, and rodents using bows and arrows.

They lived in temporary brush dwellings, spoke the Southern Paiute language, and practiced a style of pottery that was less sophisticated than the methods used by the Anasazi.

Sometime around 1150 A.D., the Anasazi abandoned Moapa Valley, possibly due to a drought which gripped the Desert Southwest during that time.

When the first European (Mormon) settlers arrived, the Paiutes self relocated (banded together) to a reservation north of Moapa Town, where they continue to live today.

Many streets bear the names of prominent Mormon families, including Barlow, Hinckley, Leavitt, Lyman, Perkins,[8] Whitmore, Wells, and Andersen.

[9] The Clark County Commission affirmed the vote, legally creating Moapa Valley on February 13, 1981.