There are 16
counties and 1
independent city in the
U.S. state of
Nevada. On November 25, 1861, the first
Nevada Territorial Legislature
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, t ...
established 9 counties.
Nevada was admitted to the Union on October 31, 1864, with 11 counties.
In 1969,
Ormsby County
Ormsby County was a county in Nevada Territory from 1861 to 1864 and in the State of Nevada from 1864 until 1969. It contained Carson City, the county seat, and later, the state capital, founded two years earlier.
Name
It was named after Maj ...
and Carson City were consolidated into a single municipal government known as Carson City.
The FIPS county code is the five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States.
The three-digit number is unique to each individual county within a state, but to be unique within the entire United States, it must be prefixed by the state code. This means that, for example, while
Churchill County, Nevada is 001,
Alameda County, California and
Baker County, Oregon are also 001. To uniquely identify Churchill County, Nevada, one must use the state code of 32 plus the county code of 001; therefore, the unique nationwide identifier for Churchill County, Nevada is 32001. The links in the column
FIPS County Code are to the Census Bureau Info page for that county.
Counties
Defunct counties
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Bullfrog County, Nevada, formed in 1987 from part of Nye county. Creation was declared unconstitutional and abolished in 1989.
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Lake County, Nevada
Roop County, until 1862 known as Lake County, was a county of Nevada Territory in the United States from 1861 until 1864. It was created in 1861 as one of the original nine counties of Nevada. In 1864 it was succeeded by Lassen County, California ...
, one of the original nine counties formed in 1861. Renamed
Roop County in 1862. Part became
Lassen County, California in 1864. Nevada remainder annexed in 1883 to Washoe county.
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Ormsby County, Nevada, one of the original nine counties formed in 1861. Consolidated in 1969 with the county seat, Carson City, forming the independent city of that name.
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