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Nevada Counties
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Nevada Counties
There are sixteen counties and one independent city in the state of Nevada. On November 25,
1861, the first Nevada Territorial Legislature established nine counties. Nevada was admitted to the Union on
October 31, 1864 with eleven counties. In 1969, Ormsby County and Carson City were consolidated into a single
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Pershing County, Nevada
Pershing County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Lovelock
Year Organized: 1919
Square Miles: 6,009 |
Court House: P.O. Box 820
County Courthouse
Lovelock, NV 89419-0820
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Named in honor of Gen. John J. Pershing, Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I.
Demographics:
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History
March 18, 1919 - Named in honor of Gen. John J. Pershing, Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. Seat: Lovelock, after the George Lovelock, a native of England, and his family which settled there in 1862.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 6,068 square miles (15,715 kmē), of which,
6,037 square miles (15,635 kmē) of it is land and 31 square miles (80 kmē) of it (0.51%) is water.
Neighboring Counties:
- Washoe County, Nevada - west
- Humboldt County, Nevada - north
- Lander County, Nevada - east
- Churchill County, Nevada - south
Cities and Towns:
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- Lovelock
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
act locally." |
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