Nevada Territory

Latitude

39.1638

Longitude

-119.7674

Entity Type

Place

Created as a territory in the western United States on March 2, 1861. Capital at Genoa in 1861, moved to Carson City in 1861. Admitted to statehood on October 31, 1864.

“Carson City, Nevada," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 18, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the Second Session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress, (Washington D.C.: George Bowman, Senate Printer, 1861), 371-72.
"Nevada Admission Acts," Nevada Legislature, accessed July 28, 2021, https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Const/NVAdmActs.html.
"Town of Genoa History," Town of Genoa, accessed July 28,2021, http://www.genoanevada.org/aboutushistory/history/index.php.

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