List of counties in Nevada

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{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=510|Name=Carson City |Notype=yes |Data2=1969 |Noseat=(Independent city) |Data3=Founded 1858, consolidated with Ormsby county in 1969.|Data4=Carson River, named in turn for Christopher Houston (Kit) Carson (1809–1868), the frontier scout and soldier. |Population=58148 |Area= 144 |Size=80px}}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=001|Name= Churchill |Data2=1861 |Seat=Fallon |Data3=Original |Data4=Sylvester Churchill (1783–1862), a general in the Mexican–American War. |Population=26033 |Area= 4929 |Size=80px}}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=003|Name= Clark |Data2=1909 |Seat=Las Vegas |Data3=Lincoln County |Data4=William A. Clark (1839–1925), former United States Senator from Montana, and builder of a railroad line through the area. |Population=2398871 |Area= 7911 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=005|Name= Douglas |Data2=1861 |Seat=Minden |Data3=Original |Data4=Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813–1861), former United States Senator from Illinois. |Population=49564 |Area= 710 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=007|Name= Elko |Data2=1869 |Seat=Elko |Data3=Lander County |Data4=A Shoshoni word meaning white woman. It is said, among the very old Shoshoni, that this is where they first saw a white woman. |Population=54363 |Area= 17182 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=009|Name= Esmeralda |Data2=1861 |Seat=Goldfield |Data3=Original |Data4=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. |Population=720 |Area= 3589 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=011|Name= Eureka |Data2=1873 |Seat=Eureka |Data3=Lander County |Data4=Greek expression Eureka, meaning I have found it!, in reference to deposits of silver found in the vicinity. |Population=1877 |Area= 4176 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=013|Name= Humboldt |Data2=1861 |Seat=Winnemucca |Data3=Original |Data4=Humboldt River, named in turn for Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), a German naturalist and explorer. |Population=17116 |Area= 9658 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=015|Name= Lander |Data2=1862 |Seat=Battle Mountain |Data3=Churchill County & Humboldt County|Data4=Frederick W. Lander (1821–1862), an American Civil War general and developer of the area. |Population=5785 |Area= 5798 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=017|Name= Lincoln |Data2=1866 |Seat=Pioche |Data3=Nye County and territory ceded by Arizona. |Data4=Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth President of the United States. |Population=4345 |Area= 10635 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=019|Name= Lyon |Data2=1861 |Seat=Yerington |Data3=Original |Data4= General Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861), who was killed in action at the Battle of Wilson's Creek. |Population=63718 |Area= 1994 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=021|Name= Mineral |Data2=1911 |Seat=Hawthorne |Data3=Esmeralda County |Data4=Mineral deposits in the area. |Population=4475 |Area= 3757 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=023|Name= Nye |Data2=1864 |Seat=Tonopah |Data3=Esmeralda County |Data4=James W. Nye (1815–1876), a governor of the Nevada Territory and U.S. senator from Nevada. |Population=55990 |Area= 18147 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=027|Name= Pershing |Data2=1919 |Seat=Lovelock |Data3=Humboldt County |Data4=John Joseph (Black Jack) Pershing (1860–1948), the World War I general. |Population=6536 |Area= 6009 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=029|Name= Storey |Data2=1861 |Seat=Virginia City |Data3=Original |Data4=Edward Farris Storey (1829–1860), a captain killed at Pyramid Lake in the 1860 Paiute War. |Population=4112 |Area= 264 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=031|Name= Washoe |Data2=1861 |Seat=Reno |Data3=Original |Data4=The Washoe, a small Indian tribe that inhabits the area. |Population=507280 |Area= 6342 |Size=80px }}

{{Countyrow|N=32|Num=033|Name= White Pine |Data2=1869 |Seat=Ely |Data3=Lander County |Data4=Heavy growth of pine trees in the area, thought to be white pine. |Population=8534 |Area= 8877 |Size=80px }}

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• Bullfrog County, Nevada, formed in 1987 from part of Nye county. Creation was declared unconstitutional and abolished in 1989.
• Lake County, Nevada, 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.
• 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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