Two Counties

Trivia question: how many counties does Nevada have? It’s tricky. We have 17, but one county, Ormsby, was consolidated with Carson City. It’s the fiftieth anniversary of that happening, AND the centennial of the creation of Nevada’s youngest county, Pershing. Let’s talk about both.    What became Pershing had been part of Humboldt County from the beginnings of Nevada Territory in 1861. A little bit of eastern Humboldt County had been chipped away in 1873 for Lander County, but, other than that, Humboldt had pretty much been left alone.