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Basques have been living in Northern Nevada for over a century and form a population of several thousand. Basque immigrants first came in the mid-1800s during the Gold rush. The Basques have also been closely-tied to sheep herding in Nevada and neighboring states. The Basque-American culture is especially prominent in the town of Winnemucca.
Population of Basques by state. Basque immigration peaked after the Spanish Carlist Wars in the 1830s—Ebro customs relocated to the Pyrenees—and in the 1860s following the discovery of gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California.
Plumas-Eureka State Park, California state park located in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range in Plumas County, California; Presidio of San Francisco, California (former Presidio and, at present, a park) Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, in Reno, Nevada; San Juan Island National Historical Park, on San Juan Island in the state of in Washington
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Winnemucca (/ ˌ w ɪ n ə ˈ m ʌ k ə / ⓘ) is the only incorporated city in, and is the county seat of Humboldt County, Nevada, United States. [5] As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 8,431, [6] up 14.0 percent from the 2010 census figure of 7,396. Interstate 80 passes through the city, where it meets U.S. Route 95.
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Elko is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the county seat of Elko County. [5] [6] As of the official 2020 U.S. Census, the city has a population of 20,564.Elko serves as the center of the Ruby Valley, a region with a population of over 55,000.
In 1970, non-Hispanic whites made up 88% of the state's population. [13] The principal ancestry of Nevada's residents in 2009 has been surveyed to be the following: [14] 20.8% Mexican; Nevada also has a sizable Basque ancestry population.