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Green, Michael S. Nevada: A History of the Silver State (2015). Hulse, James W. The Nevada Adventure (6th ed., 1990), for middle schools; Mack, Effie Mona. Nevada: A History of the State from the Earliest Times through the Civil War (1936) Rowley, William D. "The Enterprise of Nevada History," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 57 (2014) 139 ...
The Bureau of Economic Analysis [109] [110] estimates Nevada's total state product in 2018 was $170 billion. [111] The state's per capita personal income in 2020 was $53,635, ranking 31st in the nation. [112] Nevada's state debt in 2012 was calculated to be $7.5 billion, or $3,100 per taxpayer. [113] As of May 2021, the state's unemployment ...
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
Nevada Organic Act, March 2, 1861 [1] Western 53 miles of the Utah Territory is transferred to the Territory of Nevada, July 14, 1862; Nevada Enabling Act, March 21, 1864 [2] State of Nevada since 1864 Nevada Statehood, October 31, 1864 [3] Another 53 miles of western Utah Territory is transferred to the State of Nevada, May 5, 1866
Map of the United States with Nevada highlighted. Nevada is a state located in the Western United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, it is the 32nd most populous state, with 3,104,614 inhabitants, [1] but the 7th largest by land area spanning 109,781.18 square miles (284,332.0 km 2). [2] Nevada is divided into 17 counties and ...
The Nevada 1861 territory boundary (blue) changed three times: 1864 statehood shifted eastern border from 39th to 38th meridian, 1866 May 5; east border (pink) moved eastward 53.3 mi (85.8 km), from the 38th to 37th meridian, and 1867 January 18; south boundary (yellow) moved from the 37th parallel north southward to the current boundary (14 ...
Congress transferred some of the lands west of the Colorado River including Pah-Ute County, Arizona Territory to the State of Nevada on May 5, 1866. Part of this southern tip of Nevada was established as Clark County in 1909 and contains the city of Las Vegas. The territorial capital was moved from the provisional capital of Genoa to Carson City.
Nevada's first constitutional convention was in 1863. [1] The Nevada Constitution was created in 1864 at a convention on July 4 in Carson City.The convention adjourned on July 28, was approved by public vote on the first Wednesday in September, and became effective on October 31, when on that date President Abraham Lincoln declared Nevada to be a state.