Today, there are 17 counties in Nevada: Carson City, Churchill, Clark, Douglas, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing, Storey, Washoe, and White Pine. Find the county you live in on the map and color it blue! Label Nevada's 17 counties on the map below.
In 1980, the Supreme Court of the United States decreed that the boundary between California and Nevada would consist of the Von Schmidt line as marked between Oregon and the north shore of Lake Tahoe, and the USC&GS line as marked from the south shore of Lake Tahoe to the Colorado River.
Nye County Cultural. Founded in 1864, Nye County is the largest county by area in Nevada, the third-largest in the United States and larger than the four smallest States.
Some of the best cities to live in Nevada are: Henderson. Although the capital is Carson City, Las Vegas and Henderson are better known. Renault. Reno is the third largest in Nevada, behind Las Vegas and Henderson. Paradise City. Carson City. Las Vegas.
Nevada became the 36th state on October 31, 1864, after telegraphing the Constitution of Nevada to the Congress days before the November 8 presidential election (the largest and costliest transmission ever by telegraph).
Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada.
The first Nevada Territorial Legislature established nine counties on November 25, 1861, including Churchill, Douglas, Esmeralda, Humboldt, Lyon, Ormsby, Storey, Washoe and Lake.
Nevada, constituent state of the United States of America. It borders Oregon and Idaho to the north, Utah to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and California to the west.
Primm, Nevada which used to be known as State Line. Though there is a community in Northern California which straddled the California/Nevada state border known as Stateline. It is a part of South Lake Tahoe.