Pershing County, Nevada
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United States 
Nevada Pershing County
{{Infobox U.S. County | county = Pershing County | county_map = | state = Nevada | state_map = Nevada.png | latd = | longd = | founded year = 1919 | founded date = March 18 | seat = Lovelock | building image = | building address = Pershing County Courthouse
602 Nevada Pershing County Courthouse
400 Main St; PO Box 820
Lovelock, NV 89419-0820
Phone: 775.273.2208
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County Courthouse
Pershing County Courthouse
400 Main St; PO Box 820
Lovelock, NV 89419-0820
Phone: 775.273.2208
County Clerk has marriage, divorce, probate and court records from 1919. [1]
History
Parent County
1919--Pershing County was created 18 March 1919 from Humboldt County. County seat: Lovelock [2]
Boundary Changes
Record Loss
Places/Localities
Populated Places
| Arabia | Granite Point | Kodak | Mill City | Perth | Rye Patch | Tungsten |
| Colado | Humboldt | Kyle Hot Springs | Nightingale | Placerites | Scossa | Twain |
| Cosgrave | Humboldt City | Lovelock | Oreana | Poker Brown | Toulon | Unionville |
| Fitting | Imlay | Lower Rochester | Panama | Rochester | Trego | Woolsey |
Neighboring Counties
Resources
Cemeteries
US Vol. 21 page 1 - Big Meadow Cemetery
Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records
- Lovelock
Court
Land
Local Histories
Maps
Migration
Early migration routes to and from Pershing County, Nevada for emigrant settlers included:[3]
- California Trail 1846 to 1869 from western Missouri to northern California
- Applegate Trail 1846 (avoided the Forty Mile Desert) by leaving the Humboldt River in Nevada early at present-day Rye Reservoir, Nevada and passing through the Black Rock Desert to Fandango Pass past Goose Lake on to the Lost River and eventually the Willamette Valley in Oregon
- Nobles Road 1851 from the Applegate Trail at Rabbithole Springs in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada to Shasta City, California
- Central Pacific Railroad since 1869 from Ogden, Utah to Sacramento, California[4]
Military
Newspapers
- NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a collection of digitized Reno newspapers going back to 1870 that may include residents of Pershing County. This database is sometimes free at libraries.
Probate
Taxation
Vital Records
Societies and Libraries
Pershing County Library
P.O. Box 781
1125 Central Avenue
Lovelock , Nevada 89419
Telephone 775-273-2216
www.clan.lib.nv.us/polaris/
Family History Centers
Web Sites
References
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Pershing County, Oregon page 443, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ National Park Service, "California Trail" (map) in California National Historic Trail at http://www.nps.gov/cali/planyourvisit/upload/CALImap1-web.pdf (accessed 2 August 2011).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "First Transcontinental Railroad" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad (accessed 2 August 2011).
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