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Dayton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lyon County, Nevada, United States. The population was 15,153 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] Dayton is the second-oldest Nevada settlement, after Genoa , and is home to the oldest hotel in the state.
Yerington is a city in Lyon County, Nevada, United States.The population was 3,048 at the 2010 census. [4] It is the current county seat of Lyon County, with the first county seat having been established at Dayton on November 29, 1861. [5]
The FIPS county code is the five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States. [2] The three-digit number is unique to each individual county within a state, but to be unique within the entire United States, it must be prefixed by the state code.
After the Dayton Court House burned down in 1909, the seat was moved to Yerington in 1911. There were stories that it was named for Captain Robert Lyon, a survivor of the Pyramid Lake War in 1860, but Nevada State Archives staff discovered a county seal with the picture of the Civil War general, settling the conflict.
Map of the United States with Nevada highlighted. Nevada is a state located in the Western United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, it is the 32nd most populous state, with 3,104,614 inhabitants, [1] but the 7th largest by land area spanning 109,781.18 square miles (284,332.0 km 2). [2]
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Silver Springs is located in northern Lyon County. [4] U.S. Route 50 leads east 26 miles (42 km) to Fallon and west 36 miles (58 km) to Carson City, the state capital.U.S. Route 95A leads north 15 miles (24 km) to Interstate 80 at Fernley and south 32 miles (51 km) to Yerington, the county seat.