6-583: Roop County , known until 1862 as Lake County , was a county of Nevada Territory in the United States from 1861 until 1864. It was created in 1861 as one of the original nine counties of Nevada. In 1864 it was succeeded by Lassen County , California and Washoe County, Nevada . In March 1861, Congress created the official Nevada Territory , with the Honey Lake Valley and the area to its north included within its provisional bounds. When this occurred,
12-514: The U.S. state of Nevada . On November 25, 1861, the first Nevada Territorial Legislature established nine counties. Nevada was admitted to the Union on October 31, 1864, with 11 counties. In 1969, Ormsby County and Carson City were consolidated into a single municipal government known as Carson City. The FIPS county code is the five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in
18-631: The Territory of Nevada. The final surveyors report, accepted by California on April 4, 1864, and by Nevada on February 7, 1865, proved that the Honey Lake area and virtually all the population of Roop County was in California. The California portion of Roop County became part of the newly created Lassen County, California , in 1864. The remainder was ceded to Washoe County, Nevada . Nevada counties There are 16 counties and one independent city in
24-410: The United States. 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. This means that, for example, while Churchill County, Nevada is 001, Alameda County, California and Baker County, Oregon are also 001. To uniquely identify Churchill County, Nevada, one must use the state code of 32 plus
30-539: The border between Nevada and California was poorly defined in Nevada's Organic Act . Later in 1861, Lake County was established in northwestern Nevada, creating a boundary dispute with California. Its name was chosen due to the many lakes in the area, including Honey Lake , Pyramid Lake , and Winnemucca Lake . In 1862 it was renamed Roop County after Isaac Roop , governor of the unofficial "Provisional Territorial Government of Nevada Territory," which had previously existed in
36-635: The same area. Much of Roop County, including Susanville (named after Roop's daughter), was claimed by California as part of Plumas County . This led to an armed conflict known as the Sagebrush War , the War of Injunctions or the Roop County War. This resulted in the appointment of a joint California–Nevada boundary survey, with Surveyor-General J. F. Houghton acting for the State of California and Butler Ives , for
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