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The Territory of Nevada (N.T.) [1] [2] was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [3] until October 31, 1864, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Nevada . Prior to the creation of the Nevada Territory, the area was part of western Utah Territory and was known as Washoe, after the ...
- The Misplaced Northern Line
- The Disputed Western Line
- The Diagonal Line
- The Southern Tip
- The Migrating Eastern Line
The northern edge where Nevada meets Idaho and Oregon is the oldest boundary line in the West. In 1819, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams negotiated a wide-ranging treaty with Luis de Onís, special envoy from King Ferdinand VII of Spain. The Adams-Onís Treaty set boundaries between Spanish and U.S. claims across the continent and the 42nd parall...
Settlers in the foothills and lakes northwest of today’s Reno were uncertain about what political jurisdiction they were in. Most thought they were in Utah Territory, even though Salt Lake City was very far away. They had little connection with California, beyond the high Sierra Nevada Range. California had defined the northern section of its bound...
Nevada’s slanted line with California is one of the most surveyed boundaries in the country. California’s constitution describes it as a straight line from the intersection of longitude 120 degrees with latitude 39 degrees down to the Colorado River at latitude 35 degrees. The calculations for an oblique line are complex, with continuous change in ...
The first southern boundary of Nevada Territory was the 37th parallel, about 60 miles north of present Las Vegas. Nevada achieved its current southern limits on Jan. 18, 1867, when it absorbed the portion of Arizona Territory west of the Colorado River. This is the entire southern tip of the state, including all of Clark County. Congress decided Ne...
When Congress created Nevada Territory, the eastern boundary was the 39th degree of longitude west of Washington. That line, about 2 miles west of the more familiar 116th Greenwich meridian, would today exclude Elko and Ely. With discovery of gold east of the 39th Washington meridian, the Nevada territorial delegation to Congress requested moving t...
Best to stick with the cities. When President Lincoln appointed Orion Clemens as secretary of the Nevada Territory in 1861, his kid brother, Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), tagged along. He was clearly trying to avoid the conflict, and in part he was motivated by a fear that Union forces would impress him to serve as a Mississippi riverboat pilot.
On August 14, 1861, after a twenty-day stagecoach journey across the Great Plains and over the Rocky mountains, a 25 year-old Mississippi riverboat pilot fleeing, mostly, the Civil War, arrived in Carson City, Nevada – population 2000, give or take the gunplay – to be the Assistant Secretary of the Territory.
The Territory of Nevada was created on March 2, 1861 out of the western part of Utah Territory. On July 24, Governor James W. Nye ordered elections for the territorial legislature and a census to determine the districts. The elections were held on August 31. Session. One regular session was held between October 1 and November 29, 1861.
- August 31, 1861
- October 1, 1861 – November 11, 1862
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- Carson City
Jan 3, 2024 · The Nevada Territorial Legislature was created by the Organic Act. This Act, signed by President James Buchanan, became effective March 2, 1861 (U.S. Statutes at Large, 1863, v. 12, pp. 209-214), and provided that the legislative assembly of the Territory of Nevada would consist of two houses, the Council and the House of Representatives.
May 31, 2019 · "Containing the names of residents in the principal towns; a historical sketch, the Organic act and other political matters of interest; together with a description of all the quartz mills, reduction works and all other industrial establishments in the territory; [and] also of the leading mining claims." Advertising matter: p. 265-266. LAC ecr 2019-05-31 update (1 card)
