Subject: Re: Esmeralda/Nye notch near Tonopah<br/>
Date: Jun 13, 2003 @ 03:22<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 (&quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1159085637">welcome at last adam<br/>
after 22 months of lurking<br/>
a new bp record<br/>
& thanx for the interesting question too<br/>
<br/>
--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;adamnvillani&quot; &lt;avillani@u...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; For a while, I&#39;ve stared at maps of Nevada and wondered about how the <br/>
&gt; seat of Nye County, NV, (Tonopah) is on a road (US-95) that seems to <br/>
&gt; go just barely over the county line from Esmeralda County. So, one of <br/>
&gt; the largest counties in the country has a seat that almost not in <br/>
&gt; that county. <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>neither of these occurrences in itself is very unusual <br/>
but please see below<br/>
<br/>
I took a look at the USGS map of the area, and it seems <br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; like the county line was laid out with a little notch in it to give <br/>
&gt; the area within a couple miles of Tonopah all over to Nye County. The <br/>
&gt; line trends NW/SE, but there&#39;s a notch carved out of it that runs <br/>
&gt; directly E/W and then directly N/S to make a little extra room for <br/>
&gt; Tonopah in Nye. Does anyone know the history of this? Why didn&#39;t they <br/>
&gt; do the opposite and make Tonopah part of Esmeralda County? Do the <br/>
&gt; county lines pre-date the town? It seems like the chronology of <br/>
&gt; events might be 1) original county line 2) town is founded 3) county <br/>
&gt; line is adjusted.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>precisely right on all counts<br/>
1864 nye county is formed<br/>
1905 tonopah becomes its 3rd county seat<br/>
1913 your boundary change is enacted<br/>
<br/>
a fascinating fact about nevada is that all of its county seats have <br/>
always been the leading mining &or milling town of their county<br/>
& they have always changed with every boom & bust<br/>
<br/>
in this case the boundary jog was added in order to insert not the town <br/>
of tonopah itself into nye county <br/>
since it was already well within the existing boundary <br/>
but rather only to include some of its major mines with it<br/>
<br/>
& they didnt do it the opposite way because that would have deprived <br/>
nye county of its seat <br/>
& moreover esmeralda county already had a seat <br/>
 <br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; Here&#39;s a map:<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=11&n=4213089&e=479893&s=25&size=l">http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=11&n=4213089&e=479893&s=25&size=l</a><br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Adam </span></blockquote></div>