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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "adamnvillani"
<avillani@u...> wrote:
> --- 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
thanx
one new revelation here is that the stepstair churchill lyon county
line that brendan was asking about is actually not older
as i had imagined
but younger than all the diagonal slashing lines
> 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