One building, most of what the town does
The Community Center stands on Farm Road between the Library and Amargosa Valley School, across from the park. It holds the hall itself along with the town offices, and it is where the Town Advisory Board meets each month.
Nye County's adopted area plan calls this stretch of road the Amargosa Valley Community Complex, and lists what sits on it: the community center and town offices, the emergency services center and sheriff's substation, the library, the health clinic, and the school. In a town spread across several hundred square miles, nearly everything public happens along this one road.
Using the hall
The Community Center is available to Amargosa Valley residents. The town calendar shows what is already booked, and the Town Office handles reservations and can answer questions about the building before a date is set.
The Town Advisory Board
Amargosa Valley is an unincorporated town, so it has no mayor and no city council. It has instead a five member Town Advisory Board, all volunteers, who meet here and carry the town's business to the Nye County Commission.
The board meets on the last Thursday of each month at the Community Center. Agendas are posted three business days ahead and carry the start time along with the items up for discussion.
As listed by Nye County, the board is Carolyn Allen as Chair, Brenda Dymond as Vice Chair, Mike Cottingim as Town Clerk, and Bobby Hutchison and Richard Glassow as members.
What the board does
In August 2025 the board wrote to the Bureau of Land Management opposing exploratory drilling near Ash Meadows, on the grounds that the project had been approved without solid groundwater data and without coordination with the state. Five volunteers in a town of roughly fourteen hundred people, taking a position against a federal agency over the water table.
That letter went out on Community Center letterhead.
How the town got here
Residents were organizing themselves well before the arrangement was formalized. By 1964 they had founded the Amargosa Valley Improvement Association, which came to act as a sub governing body for the valley. The formal town designation followed in 1982, after residents petitioned Nye County for it, making Amargosa Valley one of the largest unincorporated communities in the country by area.
That is nearly twenty years of self government before the paperwork caught up.
Planning something at the Community Center?
The town calendar shows what is already booked. The Town Office handles reservations and questions about the building.