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'''Nataqua Territory''' was an self-declared territory in northeast [[California Genealogy|California]] and western [[Nevada Genealogy|Nevada]] from 1856 to 1861. At the time the location of the boundary between [[California Genealogy|California]] Territory and [[Utah Genealogy|Utah]] Territory was still vague. Utah in 1849 claimed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin Great Basin] land as far as the crest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_%28U.S.%29 Sierra Nevada]. California claimed its eastern boundary was the 120th west longitude in 1850. Utah erected [[Carson County, Nevada Genealogy|Carson County]] in 1854, organized it in 1855, and sent 60 Mormon families in Spring 1856 to colonize the east slope of the Sierra Nevada. | '''Nataqua Territory''' was an self-declared territory in northeast [[California Genealogy|California]] and western [[Nevada Genealogy|Nevada]] from 1856 to 1861. At the time the location of the boundary between [[California Genealogy|California]] Territory and [[Utah Genealogy|Utah]] Territory was still vague. Utah in 1849 claimed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin Great Basin] land as far as the crest of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_%28U.S.%29 Sierra Nevada]. California claimed its eastern boundary was the 120th west longitude in 1850. Utah erected [[Carson County, Nevada Genealogy|Carson County]] in 1854, organized it in 1855, and sent 60 Mormon families in Spring 1856 to colonize the east slope of the Sierra Nevada. | ||