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The Territory of Nevada (N.T.) [1] [2] was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [3] until October 31, 1864, when ...
Territory of Utah, 1850–1896; Nataqua Territory (extralegal), 1856-1861; Territory of Nevada, 1861–1864 Nevada Organic Act, March 2, 1861 [1] Western 53 miles of the Utah Territory is transferred to the Territory of Nevada, July 14, 1862; Nevada Enabling Act, March 21, 1864 [2] State of Nevada since 1864 Nevada Statehood, October 31, 1864 [3]
The Territory of Nevada was created on March 2, 1861 out of the western part of Utah Territory. On July 24, Governor James W. Nye ordered elections for the territorial legislature and a census to determine the districts. The elections were held on August 31. [2]
Nevada achieved its current southern boundaries on January 18, 1867, when it absorbed the portion of Pah-Ute County in the Arizona Territory west of the Colorado River, essentially all of present-day Nevada south of the 37th parallel. The transfer was prompted by the discovery of gold in the area, and officials thought Nevada would be better ...
In 1861, Nye was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to be Governor of the newly created Nevada Territory. [1] Upon the admission of Nevada as a state into the Union in 1864, he was elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate. [1] He was reelected in 1867 and served from February 1, 1865, to March 3, 1873. [1]
Nevada Territory's at-large congressional district is an obsolete congressional district that encompassed the area of the Nevada Territory, which was split off from the Utah Territory in 1861. After Nevada 's admission to the Union as the 36th state by act of Congress on October 31, 1864, this district was dissolved and replaced by Nevada's at ...
The Nevada 1861 territory boundary (blue) changed three times: 1864 statehood shifted eastern border from 39th to 38th meridian, 1866 May 5; east border (pink) moved eastward 53.3 mi (85.8 km), from the 38th to 37th meridian, and 1867 January 18; south boundary (yellow) moved from the 37th parallel north southward to the current boundary (14 ...
Nevada Territory was formed on March 2, 1861, from Utah Territory. [10] It had only one governor appointed by the president of the United States before it became a state. Before it was organized as a territory, a local convention in Genoa elected Isaac Roop provisional governor, taking office on December 15, 1859.