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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 ...
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
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]
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.
The Flag of Nevada. Nevada (/ n ə ˈ v æ d ə,-v ɑː-/ ⓘ nə-VAD-ə, - VAH-, Spanish:) is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east.
Nevada – U.S. state in the intermountain west region of the United States. Nevada is mostly desert or semiarid. Nevada is mostly desert or semiarid. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area , [ 1 ] and about 86% of the state's land is owned by the US government , under various departments and agencies.
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.