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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Nevada
Five. California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Arizona.
Boundary Peak. 13,140 ft Boundary Peak is located in Esmeralda County near the California border.
Austin. The geographic center of Nevada is 26 miles southeast of Austin.
Pat Nixon. Pat Nixon was born Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 26, 1912 in Ely, White Pine County.
Extraterrestrial HIghway. Route 375 skirts the eastern boundaries of the mysterious Area 51.
Utah Territory. On March 2, 1861, President Buchanan signed an Act of Congress making Nevada a Territory. It included all of present day Nevada, except the area of Clark County, which was ceded to Nevada from Arizona in 1866.
Abraham Lincoln. Nevada achieved statehood on October 31, 1864.
| In 1859, the richest known silver deposit was discovered. It was known as the Comstock Lode. What Nevada community sprang up overnight as a result? | Nevada - The Silver State
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Virginia City. Mark Twain started his writing career with the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise newspaper.
Spanish. It is Spanish for "snow covered".
Mountain bluebird. The mountain bluebird is a member of the thrush family and lives in the Nevada highlands. It destroys many harmful insects and makes people happy with its sweet song.
t. The state trees are the bristlecone pine and the single-leaf pinon. The bristlecone pine can live for more than 2,000 years. The pinon pine produces edible nuts.
Ichthyosaur. Nevada has the world's only complete skeleton of this ancient sea reptile. Ichthyosaurs grew 60 feet in length and their eyes were 12 inches in diameter.
t. This fish is found in 14 of Nevada's 17 counties. It is called the cutthroat because of a red stripe on its lower jaw.
Indian ricegrass. Indian ricegrass provides food for Nevada's cattle industry.
Sagebrush. Nevada sagebrush is not related to the spicy sage plant. It is called sage because of the sweet smell it produces when burned or crushed.
Sandstone. Nevada is famous for beautiful sandstone formations that were carved out by winds over thousands of years. The capitol building in Carson City is made of sandstone.
f. The state gemstone is black fire opal, a rare an beautiful stone that is found in large quantities only in Nevada.
Desert bighorn sheep. The desert bighorn sheep is known for its wide horns. An adult male can weigh up to 175 pounds, and both sexes can go long periods of time without water.
Yes. The state artifact is the tule duck, a duck decoy made my Nevada Indians more than 2,000 years ago. It was fashioned out of straw and shaped to resemble a duck. They were placed in lakes to draw ducks to the hidden hunters, who killed them with stones or darts.
Desert tortoise. The desert tortoise spends most of its life underground to escape the hot days and cold nights of the typical Nevada desert. It can live to be 70 years old.
silver. Silver has a rich history in Nevada and is important to the economy.
"Home Means Nevada". The state song was written by Bertha Raffetto. It became the official state song in 1933.
Reno. The Nevada State Fair is held in August in Reno.
| Las Vegas, the largest city in Nevada, resides in Clark County and nearby Lake Mead is its playground. During the early days of the westward expansion and long before the glitz and glamour, Las Vegas was a vital stop on which emigrant trail? | County Seats of Nevada
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The Spanish Trail. As early as 1829, travellers heading west utilized the springs at the future site of the neon jungle. The place was named Las Vegas which is Spanish for "the meadows."
| Elko is the county seat of Elko County. The town came into existance in 1869 when the Central Pacific Railroad came through. Which river runs through Elko? | County Seats of Nevada
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Humboldt. The Humboldt River is the largest river in Nevada which begins and ends within the state's borders. An interesting side note: Bing Crosby, who owned a couple of ranches in the county, was honorary mayor from the 1950s until his death.
| Pershing County's seat is the remote town of Lovelock, with a population around 2,500. Nearby is a large body of water that is a major Nevada recreational site. What is the right name? | County Seats of Nevada
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Rye Patch Reservoir. Lovelock is also home to one of Nevada's state prisons. That prison has been the home of O.J. Simpson!
Winnemucca. Winnemucca was the scene of an alleged bank robbery of the First National Bank by Butch Cassidy and the Hole in the Wall Gang on September 19, 1900. Butch was later ruled out as a perpetrator since he had performed another robbery in Wyoming a few days after that. However, it is believed that three members of the Hole in the Wall gang were the culprits.
| The mining town of Pioche is the county seat of Lincoln County. What was the primary mineral mined here that put Pioche on the map? | County Seats of Nevada
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Silver. Total production of the mines was close to $50 million. In its early days, Pioche was a violent place. Gun fights were common place. In 1871 and 1872, 60% of all murders in the entire state of Nevada happened here.
| Battle Mountain is the county seat of Lander County, having replaced the old silver town of Austin. The town received some national notoriety when "USA Today" bestowed Battle Mountain with what unusual title? | County Seats of Nevada
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"Armpit of America". The struggling mining town took the designation to heart and turned it into a big tourism angle. The town hosts an armpit festival complete with an underarm deodorant sponsor!
| Hawthorne, county seat of Mineral County, is home to a very important United States military facility. It covers 147,000 acres and has been labelled the largest of its type. What does it function as? | County Seats of Nevada
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Ammunition Depot. Many square miles around the town are rows upon rows of ammunition bunkers. The military has its own dedicated railroad to haul munitions. Hawthorne came into being in 1880 on the newly completed Carson and Colorado Railroad. The military is the lifeblood of the town. Hawthorne is the self-proclaimed "Most Patriotic Town in the U.S."
| Tonopah, discovered by Jim Butler in 1900, is the county seat of Nye County, the third largest land area county in the U.S. The town of 2,800 is nestled in a small mountain range with the same name as a much more famous group of mountains. What is that name? | County Seats of Nevada
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The Sawtooths. The Sawtooths is a small range that is at the south end of the San Antonio Mountains. It runs for about 10 miles and slightly over 7,000'. Tonopah's elevation is 6,000' and the area around the town is considered "high desert."
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