Place:Lyon, Nevada, United States

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NameLyon
Alt namesCarsonsource: Family History Library Catalog
Lyonsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates39.0°N 119.117°W
Located inNevada, United States     (1861 - )
See alsoCarson, Nevada, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Census-designated place
Dayton
Fernley
Silver Springs
Smith Valley
Deserted settlement
Artesia
Bucklands Station
Cambridge
Eureka
Nevada Station
Walker River
Inhabited place
Apache
Argo
Carson Rapids City
Churchill
Como
Davis Station
Elbow Stage Station
Greenville
Hoye
Hudson
Ludwig
Manseaus Half-Way House
Marshland
Mason
Mound House
Nordyke
Palmyra
Pine Grove
Ramsey Station
Ramsey
Rockland
Silver City
Simpson
Smith
Stagecoach
Stone Cabin
Sutro
Sweetwater
Thompson
Tippecanoe
Twin Flat
Wabuska
Weed Heights
Wellington Springs
Wellington
Wichman
Yerington Indian Reservation
Yerington
Unknown
Fort Churchill
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Lyon County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 59,235. Lyon County comprises the Fernley, NV Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Reno-Carson City-Fernley, NV Combined Statistical Area.

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History

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Lyon County was one of the nine original counties created on November 25, 1861. It was named after Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union General to be killed in the Civil War. Its first county seat was established at Dayton on November 29, 1861, which had just changed its name from Nevada City in 1862, and which had been called Chinatown before that. 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.

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1861 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1861 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1862 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1867 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1867 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1870 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1887 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1940 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1870 1,837
1880 2,409
1890 1,987
1900 2,268
1910 3,568
1920 4,078
1930 3,810
1940 4,076
1950 3,679
1960 6,143
1970 8,221
1980 13,594
1990 20,001
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