The Lakes, Las Vegas

The Lakes is a 2-square-mile (5.2 km2) planned community located within the city limits of Las Vegas, Nevada.

It is located in the western part of the Las Vegas Valley near the Spring Mountains and Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.

Citicards, a subsidiary of Citibank, located its main Payment Processing Center here in 1985, as the centerpiece of The Lakes community.

The United States Postal Service has since created two ZIP codes to handle the large volume of mail involved.

In an effort to avoid having the negative connotation of credit card payments going to Las Vegas, these ZIP codes have been assigned the place name The Lakes, Nevada.