Nevada County

English

Proper noun

Nevada County

  1. one of 75 counties in Arkansas, USA, with its county seat in Prescott. It was so named as it is roughly the shape of the state of Nevada when inverted.
  2. one of 58 counties in California, USA, which was named after Nevada City, the county seat, in 1851, not the state of Nevada which was created in 1861.

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