--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:

> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "adamnvillani"
> > Thanks... inspired by your ability to find the dates on those, I
> > poked around on the web and found the Nevada legislation on
> county
> > boundaries.
>
> wow
> the actual legislation would be a treat if you could point me to it
> for i have only been gleaning my data from secondary sources

Here you go:
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-243.html

It's kinda neat; some of the county definitions are really simple,
and others go into quite a bit of detail. There were also only a
handful of counties originally.

Looking at Nevada's history, it's remarkable how much the population
of various places has fluctuated with the fortunes of the local
mining operations. Somewhere I read that Goldfield was the most
populous town in the state (at 20,000) at one time. Must be weird
living in a place that used to be something like 100 times the size
it is now. I visited Rhyolite once on a trip to Death Valley... neat
ghost town, now populated with giant outdoor sculptures.

Adam