The Mojave Wasteland is a vital frontier region encompassing the pre-War Mojave Desert. This page aims to provide an overview of the settlements and communities in the region and the roles they play.
List of communities[]
- Point of reference - 2281
| Name | Type | Overview |
|---|---|---|
| Bitter Springs | Refugee camp | The former home of the Great Khans. After the brutal Bitter Springs Massacre, it is now a refugee camp. |
| Freeside | District | A slum in New Vegas that is on the path to New Vegas and receives much of its revenue through the people passing through to the city of vice. |
| Goodsprings | Town | A quiet ghost town formed around a still operating pre-War freshwater spring. Largely isolated from most of the happening in the Mojave, the rare caravan and odd courier does travel to Goodsprings, but that always once in a blue moon. |
| Jacobstown | Town | Like the state of Utopitha, Jacobstown is inhabited almost entirely with super mutants. Unlike the state found on Black Mountain, Jacobstown is a peaceful community that is struggling with anti-mutant attacks and finding a cure to Nightkin insanity. |
| Nellis Air Force Base | Tribal settlement | Inhabited by the xenophobic and weapon savvy Boomers, Nellis has served as the isolated home that has allowed them to grow and prosper since their ancestors left Vault 34. |
| NCR sharecropper farms | Farming community | Formed under the Thaler Act, these small OSI-overseen farms in outer New Vegas are utilized by the NCR to cultivate the land in exchange for money, military protection and sustenance. |
| New Vegas | City | The crown jewel of the Mojave that is home to intact skyscrapers, districts, electricity, plenty of gambling, and the mysterious Robert House. |
| North Vegas Square | District | The north quadrant of the New Vegas area, the square is made up of fragmented citizenry camping and protecting the area from Fiends and hostile critters. |
| Novac | Town | Novac is based around the remains of a roadside motel on Highway 95. The town gets by largely on prospecting the surrounding area, such as the REPCONN test site, and from caravans stopping in from traveling on the highway. |
| Primm | Town | Billing itself as "The other New Vegas," Primm is a small, independent town that gets by on trading and gambling, but has recently been taken over by escaped convicts. |
| Red Rock Canyon | Tribal settlement | Home to the once-mighty but still proud Great Khans who are responsible for drug production and running in the area. |
| Skull Canyon | Town | A small town of mutants and humans. The mutants are the majority and most speak an incomprehensible language. |
| Sloan | Mining outpost | A small mining outpost that works Quarry Junction for limestone for the NCR, but has ceased production due to a deathclaw infestation of the quarry. |
| Westside | District | A fledgling district of New Vegas that generates revenue by farming and trading, proud of its self-sufficiency and independence. |
List of abandoned communities[]
| Name | Type | Overview | Cause of abandonment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder City | Town | Boulder City was like any town before the First Battle of Hoover Dam. During this battle, the NCR executed a tactical retreat, luring Caesar's Legion into a trap laid in the town. Once the Legion entered the town, the town was destroyed with explosives. The action severely crippled the Legion that day, but most of the town was destroyed. | Now little more than a construction town that turns limestone into cement, but because of deathclaws, cement processing has ceased. |
| Nipton | Town | A large community with an economy based on services and trade. Proximity to Republican military camps and trade routes leading into Vegas helped foster trade with entertainment (alcohol, drugs, prostitution), while the lack of law enforcement encouraged settlement by less-than-desirable citizens. | Sacked by Legion forces under Vulpes Inculta. Most residents slaughtered or enslaved. |
| Nelson | Town | A small mining community on the shores of the Colorado River. | Occupied by Legion forces under Decanus Dead Sea. |
| Searchlight | Military camp | A military base securing the southeastern Mojave, set up in a ghost town dating back to the times of the gold rush of the 19th century. | Destroyed by frumentarii by way of sabotage. |
| Tribal village | Village | A small village built into the mountain. | Raided by the Fiends and later overrun by cazadores (seen in All Roads). |