Stateline is a census-designated place (CDP) on the southeastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.
The population swells considerably during the busy winter and summer seasons, due to the high number of hotel rooms and rental accommodations available.
Many of the hotels in the neighboring city of South Lake Tahoe, California, organize buses to take residents to the casinos in Stateline.
Stateline and South Lake Tahoe are effectively a single settlement, with the state line intersecting with U.S. Route 50 immediately after the Harrah's and Harvey's casinos.
Another well-known feature of Stateline is Kingsbury Grade, which runs up and over a mountain pass, rising from Lake Tahoe and dropping down to the Carson Valley on the other side.
Most of the town and surrounding land has been maintained by the heirs of the historic Friday's Station of the Pony Express; it is leased to the casinos.
The duplex naming of the community originated in part because of an interstate border dispute, resulting from differences in several boundary surveys.
placed the border several thousand feet east of 1872 Von Schmidt line, creating a discrepancy which left the community in legal jeopardy.
[6][7] After a 1980 US Supreme Court ruling,[3] the east-migrated gambling community of Edgewood formally regained its name Stateline, this time in NV.
; the California portion which had been contested by Nevada was dissolved into the city of South Lake Tahoe.
Nevada State Route 207 connects Stateline to the Douglas County seat, Minden.