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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 Latter-day Saint 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 Latter-day Saint 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: | ||
{{Block indent|1=*[[Nataqua Territory|Nataqua Territory]] 26 April 1856<ref name="Dav25" /> |2=1}} | |||
{{Block indent|*Nataqua County, Nevada 8 August 1857<ref>Davis, 229-30.</ref> }} | |||
{{Block indent|1=*[[Lake County, Nevada Genealogy|Lake County, Nevada]] 2 March 1861<ref name="DavWik" /> |2=1}} | |||
{{Block indent|*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>}} | |||
Nevertheless, on 7 February 1865 the Nevada legislature accepted the findings of an official survey that set the California-Nevada border at the 120th degree west longitude. This split Roop County with the most populated Honey Lake Valley part going to [[Lassen County, California Genealogy|Lassen County, California]], but the bulk of the Roop County land was consolidated into [[Washoe County, Nevada Genealogy|Washoe County, Nevada]].<ref name="Roop" /> | Nevertheless, on 7 February 1865 the Nevada legislature accepted the findings of an official survey that set the California-Nevada border at the 120th degree west longitude. This split Roop County with the most populated Honey Lake Valley part going to [[Lassen County, California Genealogy|Lassen County, California]], but the bulk of the Roop County land was consolidated into [[Washoe County, Nevada Genealogy|Washoe County, Nevada]].<ref name="Roop" /> | ||
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{{Block indent|*[[Lassen County, California Genealogy]]}} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Washoe County, Nevada Genealogy]]}} | |||
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