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''[[United States Genealogy|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Nevada Genealogy|Nevada]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Roop_County,_Nevada|Roop County]]'' | ''[[United States Genealogy|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Nevada Genealogy|Nevada]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Roop_County,_Nevada|Roop County]]'' | ||
'''Roop County''' was created 2 December 1862 by renaming [[Lake County, Nevada|Lake County]].<ref name="DavWik">William Newell Davis, Jr., "The Territory of Nataqua: an Episode in Pioneer Government East of the Sierra," ''California Historical Society Quarterly'' 21, No. 3 (September 1942), 233-34. Online [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161008 digital edition] at JSTOR ($), and Wikipedia contributors, "Roop County, Nevada" in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roop_County,_Nevada (accessed 4 August 2011).</ref> <ref>John Koontz, ''Political History of Nevada, 5th ed.'' (Carson City, Nev.: SPO, 1965), 100. {{WorldCat|21179|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|215840|item|disp=FHL Book 979.3 N2k}}</ref> Roop County was discontinued and split between [[California Genealogy|California]] and [[Nevada Genealogy|Nevada]] 7 February 1865.<ref name="Roop">Wikipedia contributors, "Roop County, Nevada" in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roop_County,_Nevada (accessed 4 August 2011).</ref> | '''Roop County''' was created 2 December 1862 by renaming [[Lake County, Nevada Genealogy|Lake County]].<ref name="DavWik">William Newell Davis, Jr., "The Territory of Nataqua: an Episode in Pioneer Government East of the Sierra," ''California Historical Society Quarterly'' 21, No. 3 (September 1942), 233-34. Online [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161008 digital edition] at JSTOR ($), and Wikipedia contributors, "Roop County, Nevada" in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roop_County,_Nevada (accessed 4 August 2011).</ref> <ref>John Koontz, ''Political History of Nevada, 5th ed.'' (Carson City, Nev.: SPO, 1965), 100. {{WorldCat|21179|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. {{FHL|215840|item|disp=FHL Book 979.3 N2k}}</ref> Roop County was discontinued and split between [[California Genealogy|California]] and [[Nevada Genealogy|Nevada]] 7 February 1865.<ref name="Roop">Wikipedia contributors, "Roop County, Nevada" in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roop_County,_Nevada (accessed 4 August 2011).</ref> | ||
At the time the California-Nevada border was in dispute. [[Utah Genealogy|Utah]] had claimed most of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin Great Basin] including the east slope of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_%28U.S.%29 Sierra Nevada] in 1849. In 1856 they sent 60 Mormon families to Carson Valley to backup their claim. California claimed the border was the present border, dozens of miles east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada. In 1856 residents of Honey Lake Valley ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanville,_California Susanville]) began the [[Nataqua Territory]] movement that eventually led to the creation of [[Nevada Genealogy|Nevada]]. The Nataqua Territory convention said their valley was outside California and thereby implied the Sierra Nevada crest was their border.<ref name="Dav25">Davis, 225.</ref> Roop County was one of the names given to the Nataqua (later Nevada) claims which also included the Great Basin parts of present-day California. The land that became Roop County straddled the eventual border and underwent several name changes: | At the time the California-Nevada border was in dispute. [[Utah Genealogy|Utah]] had claimed most of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin Great Basin] including the east slope of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_%28U.S.%29 Sierra Nevada] in 1849. In 1856 they sent 60 Mormon families to Carson Valley to backup their claim. California claimed the border was the present border, dozens of miles east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada. In 1856 residents of Honey Lake Valley ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanville,_California Susanville]) began the [[Nataqua Territory]] movement that eventually led to the creation of [[Nevada Genealogy|Nevada]]. The Nataqua Territory convention said their valley was outside California and thereby implied the Sierra Nevada crest was their border.<ref name="Dav25">Davis, 225.</ref> Roop County was one of the names given to the Nataqua (later Nevada) claims which also included the Great Basin parts of present-day California. The land that became Roop County straddled the eventual border and underwent several name changes: | ||
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:*[[Nataqua Territory|Nataqua Territory]] 26 April 1856<ref name="Dav25" /> | :*[[Nataqua Territory|Nataqua Territory]] 26 April 1856<ref name="Dav25" /> | ||
:*Nataqua County, Nevada 8 August 1857<ref>Davis, 229-30.</ref> | :*Nataqua County, Nevada 8 August 1857<ref>Davis, 229-30.</ref> | ||
:*[[Lake County, Nevada|Lake County, Nevada]] 2 March 1861<ref name="DavWik" /> | :*[[Lake County, Nevada Genealogy|Lake County, Nevada]] 2 March 1861<ref name="DavWik" /> | ||
:*Roop County, Nevada 2 December 1862. The Nevada legislature used this name-change to assert jurisdiction to the crest of the Sierra Nevada.<ref>Lahontan Images, "Roop County" in ''Exploring Northeastern California History'' at http://www.citlink.net/~lahontan/roopcounty.htm (accessed 4 August 2011).</ref> | :*Roop County, Nevada 2 December 1862. The Nevada legislature used this name-change to assert jurisdiction to the crest of the Sierra Nevada.<ref>Lahontan Images, "Roop County" in ''Exploring Northeastern California History'' at http://www.citlink.net/~lahontan/roopcounty.htm (accessed 4 August 2011).</ref> | ||