County
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FIPS code[2]
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County seat[3]
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Est.[3]
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Origin[4]
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Etymology[1][4] |
Population[5] |
Area[3][6] |
Map |
Carson City |
510 |
(Independent city) | 1969 | Founded 1858, consolidated with Ormsby county in 1969. | Carson River, named in turn for Christopher Houston (Kit) Carson (1809–1868), the frontier scout and soldier. |
58,130 |
144 sq mi (373 km2) | |
Churchill County |
001 |
Fallon | 1861 | Original | Sylvester Churchill (1783–1862), a general in the Mexican–American War. |
25,843 |
4,929 sq mi (12,766 km2) | |
Clark County |
003 |
Las Vegas | 1909 | Lincoln County | William A. Clark (1839–1925), former United States Senator from Montana, and builder of a railroad line through the area. |
2,322,985 |
7,911 sq mi (20,489 km2) | |
Douglas County |
005 |
Minden | 1861 | Original | Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813–1861), former United States Senator from Illinois. |
49,628 |
710 sq mi (1,839 km2) | |
Elko County |
007 |
Elko | 1869 | Lander County | A Shoshoni word meaning white woman. It is said, among the very old Shoshoni, that this is where they first saw a white woman. |
54,046 |
17,182 sq mi (44,501 km2) | |
Esmeralda County |
009 |
Goldfield | 1861 | Original | Esmeralda Mining District, named in turn for the legend that a massive amount of emeralds was buried in what is now Nevada. Esmeralda is the Spanish and Portuguese word for emerald. |
744 |
3,589 sq mi (9,295 km2) | |
Eureka County |
011 |
Eureka | 1873 | Lander County | Greek expression Eureka, meaning I have found it!, in reference to deposits of silver found in the vicinity. |
1,863 |
4,176 sq mi (10,816 km2) | |
Humboldt County |
013 |
Winnemucca | 1861 | Original | Humboldt River, named in turn for Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), a German naturalist and explorer. |
17,272 |
9,658 sq mi (25,014 km2) | |
Lander County |
015 |
Battle Mountain | 1862 | Churchill County & Humboldt County | Frederick W. Lander (1821–1862), an American Civil War general and developer of the area. |
5,766 |
5,798 sq mi (15,017 km2) | |
Lincoln County |
017 |
Pioche | 1866 | Nye County and territory ceded by Arizona. | Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth President of the United States. |
4,482 |
10,635 sq mi (27,545 km2) | |
Lyon County |
019 |
Yerington | 1861 | Original | General Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861), who was killed in action at the Battle of Wilson's Creek. |
61,585 |
1,994 sq mi (5,164 km2) | |
Mineral County |
021 |
Hawthorne | 1911 | Esmeralda County | Mineral deposits in the area. |
4,525 |
3,757 sq mi (9,731 km2) | |
Nye County |
023 |
Tonopah | 1864 | Esmeralda County | James W. Nye (1815–1876), a governor of the Nevada Territory and U.S. senator from Nevada. |
54,738 |
18,147 sq mi (47,001 km2) | |
Pershing County |
027 |
Lovelock | 1919 | Humboldt County | John Joseph (Black Jack) Pershing (1860–1948), the World War I general. |
6,462 |
6,009 sq mi (15,563 km2) | |
Storey County |
029 |
Virginia City | 1861 | Original | Edward Farris Storey (1829–1860), a captain killed at Pyramid Lake in the 1860 Paiute War. |
4,170 |
264 sq mi (684 km2) | |
Washoe County |
031 |
Reno | 1861 | Original | The Washoe, a small Indian tribe that inhabits the area. |
496,745 |
6,342 sq mi (16,426 km2) | |
White Pine County |
033 |
Ely | 1869 | Lander County | Heavy growth of pine trees in the area, thought to be white pine. |
8,788 |
8,877 sq mi (22,991 km2) | |