A slang term for an enormous surprise. Example 11x4 Jackpot.
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Jackpot, Nevada is located at 41°58'53" North, 114°39'54" West (41.981271, -114.665097) at an elevation of 5,213 ft (1,588.92 m), just short of being one mile above sea level.
Jackpot is located in the Great Basin on the banks of Salmon Falls Creek.
Jackpot is located about 50 mi (80 km) northeast of the unincorporated town of Jarbidge, Nevada and the Jarbidge Wilderness; from Jackpot, a traveler cannot enter the Jarbidge Wilderness area by road without entering Idaho and returning to Nevada on other roads.
Jackpot owes its existence to the presidential ambitions of Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who did Nevada a big favor in the early 1950s by crusading against illegal slot machines around the country.
There are 1,500 permanent residents in Jackpot now, and although the town lacks the supreme symbol of civilized existence, a cemetery, it does have a school, a golf course, a magnificent enclosed swimming pool, tennis courts, over 100 RV spaces and an airport.
Jackpot is surely the busiest town in Nevada, maybe the world, with a crowded schedule of golf tournaments, air races, skeet shoots, balloon ascensions and other events both ordinary and exotic.
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