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Carson City, officially the Carson City Consolidated Municipality,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the 6th most populous city in the state. The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about Template:Convert south of Reno. The city is named after the mountain man Kit Carson (1809-1868). The town began as a stopover for California-bound immigrants, but developed into a city with the Comstock Lode, a silver strike in the mountains to the northeast. The city has served as Nevada's capital since statehood in 1864; for much of its history it was a hub for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, although the tracks were removed in 1950.

Before 1969, Carson City was the county seat of Ormsby County. That year, after a referendum approved merging the city and the county, the state legislature issued a revised city charter that merged them into the Carson City Consolidated Municipality.<ref name=consolidatedmunicipality>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With the consolidation, the city limits extend west across the Sierra Nevada to the California-Nevada state line in the middle of Lake Tahoe. Like other independent cities in the United States, it is treated as a county-equivalent for census purposes.

HistoryEdit

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Abraham Curry
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Illustration of Carson City in 1877

The Washoe people have inhabited the valley and surrounding areas for about 6,000 years.<ref name="Pritzker">Template:Cite book</ref>

The first European Americans to arrive in what is now known as Eagle Valley were John C. Frémont and his exploration party in January 1843.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Kit Carson,(1809-1868), the mountain man, explorer and scout he had hired for his expedition. Later, settlers named the area Washoe, in reference to the indigenous people.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

By 1851, the Eagle Station ranch along the Carson River was a trading post and stop-over for westbound travelers and wagons on the California Trail's Carson Branch, which ran through Eagle Valley. The valley and trading post received their name from a bald eagle that was hunted and killed by one of the early settlers and was featured pinned on a wall inside the post.

As the area was part of the larger Utah Territory (1850-1896), it was governed from the territorial (and later state) capital of Salt Lake City on the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake, where the territorial government was headquartered there several hundred miles further east with Mormon (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) patriarch of Brigham Young (1801-1877), as first Governor of Utah. Early settlers bristled at the control by Mormon-influenced officials and desired the creation of the provisional Nevada Territory with Isaac Roop (1822-1869, served 1859-1861), as provisional Governor. A vigilante group of influential settlers, headed by Abraham Curry (1815-1873), sought a site for a capital city for the envisioned future separate territory.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1858, Abraham Curry bought Eagle Station and the settlement was thereafter renamed Carson City.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Curry and several other partners had Eagle Valley surveyed for development. Curry decided Carson City would someday serve as the capital city and left a Template:Convert plot in the center of town for a capitol building.

After gold and silver ore were discovered in 1859 on the nearby newly-named Comstock Lode, Carson City's population began to grow. Curry built the Warm Springs Hotel a mile to the east of the town center. When new territorial governor James W. Nye (1815-1876, served 1861-1864), traveled east to Nevada, he chose Carson City as the territorial capital instead of earlier Genoa, which had functioned temporarily as such for the past few years. Influenced by Carson City lawyer William M. Stewart (1827-1909), who escorted him from the port of San Francisco, California where he arrived onboard a passenger steamboat liner, then journeying uphill past Sacramento to Nevada.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> As such, Carson City bested Virginia City and American Flat. Curry loaned the Warm Springs Hotel to the territorial Legislature as a temporary meeting hall. The Legislature named Carson City to be the county seat of Ormsby County and also selected the hotel as the territorial prison, with Curry serving as its first warden. Today, the property is still part of the state prison.

When Nevada became the 36th state in 1864 during the American Civil War (1861-1865), Carson City was confirmed as Nevada's permanent state capital. Carson City's development was no longer dependent on the mining industry and instead became a thriving commercial center. The Virginia and Truckee Railroad was built between Virginia City and Carson City. A log flume was also built from the Sierra Nevada mountains range into Carson City. The current Nevada State Capitol building was constructed from 1869 to 1871. The United States Mint also operated its branch of the Carson City Mint between the years of 1870 and 1893, which struck gold and silver coins of United States currency. People came from China during that time, many to work on the transcontinental railroad being constructed. Some of them owned businesses and taught school. By 1880, almost a thousand Chinese people, "one for every five Caucasians", lived in Carson City.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Carson City's population and transportation traffic decreased when the Central Pacific Railroad built a branch line through Donner Pass to connect with the Carson and Colorado Railroad. The new branch also bypassed the Virginia & Truckee line, and ran too far to the north to benefit Carson City. The city was slightly revitalized with the mining booms in nearby Tonopah and Goldfield. The United States federal building (now renamed the Paul Laxalt Building) was completed in 1890 as was the Stewart Indian School. Even these developments could not prevent its population from dropping to just over 1,500 people by 1930. Carson City resigned itself to small city status, advertising itself as "America's smallest capital". The city slowly grew after World War II (1939/1941-1945); by 1960, it had reached its former 1880 mining boom-town era population size of 80 years before.

20th-century revitalization and growthEdit

In 1931, gambling was legalized in Nevada which increased tourism to Carson City.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

As early as the late 1940s, discussions began about merging Ormsby County and Carson City. By this time, the county was little more than Carson City and a few hamlets to the west. By the 1960 census, all but 2,900 of the county's residents lived in Carson City. However, the effort did not pay off until 1966, when a statewide referendum approved the merger. The required constitutional amendment was passed in 1968. On April 1, 1969, Ormsby County and Carson City officially merged as the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City.<ref name=consolidatedmunicipality /> With this consolidation, Carson City absorbed former town sites such as Empire City, which had grown up in the 1860s as a milling center along the Carson River and current U.S. Route 50. Carson City could now advertise itself as one of America's largest state capitals with its Template:Convert of city limits.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1991, the city adopted a downtown master plan, specifying no building within Template:Convert of the capitol would surpass it in height. This plan effectively prohibited future high-rise development in the center of downtown.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Ormsby House is the tallest building in downtown Carson City, at a height of Template:Convert. The structure was completed in 1972.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

GeographyEdit

Most of the city proper resides in the Eagle Valley. The Carson River flows from Douglas County through the southwestern edge of both the valley and Carson City. Since the consolidation, the city limits today include several small populated areas outside of this valley. Today the city limits include several peaks in the Sierra Nevada, small portions of both the Virginia Range and the Pine Nut Mountains and portions of Marlette Lake and Lake Tahoe. The highest elevation in city limits is Snow Valley Peak at an elevation of Template:Convert.<ref name=benchmark>Template:Cite map</ref> Carson City is one of two state capitals that border another state, the other being Trenton, New Jersey.

ClimateEdit

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Climate chart for Carson City

Carson City features a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSk, Trewartha: BSak) with cold winters and hot summers. The city is in a high desert river valley approximately Template:Convert above sea level. There are four fairly distinct seasons. Winters see typically light to moderate snowfall, with an average of Template:Convert, with the most snowfall being Template:Convert from July 1951 to June 1952 and the least Template:Convert from July 2002 to June 2003. Most precipitation occurs in winter and spring, with summer and fall being fairly dry, drier than neighboring California. The wettest “rain year” was from July 1937 to June 1938 with Template:Convert and the driest from July 1971 to June 1972 with Template:Convert. The most precipitation in one month occurred in December 1955 when Template:Convert fell and the most snowfall Template:Convert in March 1952. The most precipitation in one day has been Template:Convert on November 19 of 1950.

There are 39.5 afternoons of Template:Convert+ highs annually, with Template:Convert+ temperatures occurring 1.2 afternoons per year.<ref name = NOAA /> The hottest month has been July 2021 with an average of Template:Convert, the hottest temperature Template:Convert on July 19, 1931, and the highest minimum Template:Convert on August 1, 2022.

There are 125 mornings with lows below freezing, but afternoon maxima top Template:Convert on all but 52 days, and top freezing on all but five. Temperatures below Template:Convert are very rare, occurring about twice per winter and frequently not occurring at all. The coldest temperature in Carson City has been Template:Convert on January 21, 1937, the lowest maximum Template:Convert on December 12, 1932, and December 22, 1990, and the coldest month January 1949 with a mean temperature of Template:Convert, although January 1937 at Template:Convert is the only other month below Template:Convert.

The average temperature in Carson City increased by Template:Convert between 1984 and 2014, a greater change than in any other city in the United States.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Places of interestEdit

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MuseumsEdit

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Secret Harbor Beach, Lake Tahoe
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  • Children's Museum of Northern Nevada – Carson City

Open landEdit

DemographicsEdit

Template:See also Carson City is the smallest of the United States' 366 metropolitan statistical areas.

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Racial Composition
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White Alone (NH) 63.2% 70.7% 78.5% 37,064 39,083 41,204
Black Alone (NH) 1.8% 1.8% 1.7% 1,079 1,003 909
American Indian Alone (NH) 1.8% 2% 2.1% 1,072 1,096 1,126
Asian Alone (NH) 2.3% 2.1% 1.7% 1,358 1,139 895
Pacific Islander Alone (NH) 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 110 91 65
Other Race Alone (NH) 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 292 67 65
Multiracial (NH) 4.8% 1.8% 1.4% 2,794 1,018 727
Hispanic (Any race) 25.4% 21.3% 14.2% 14,870 11,777 7,466

As of the 2010 census, there were 55,274 people, 20,171 households, and 13,252 families residing in the city. The population density was Template:Convert. There were 21,283 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert. The racial makeup of the city was 81.1% White, 1.9% Black or African American, 2.4% Native American, 2.1% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 9.4% from other races, and 2.9% from two or more races. 21% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

As of the 2000 census, there were 20,171 households, out of which 29.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.0% were married couples living together, 11.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.3% were non-families. 27.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.00% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 2.97. The city's age distribution was: 23.4% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 24.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 106.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.2 males.

Data from the 2000 census indicates the median income for a household in the city was $41,809, and the median income for a family was $49,570. Males had a median income of $35,296 versus $27,418 for females. The per capita income for the city was $20,943. 10.0% of the population and 6.9% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 13.7% of those under the age of 18 and 5.8% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

LanguagesEdit

As of 2010, 82.3% (42,697) of Carson City residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a first language, while 14.1% (7,325) spoke Spanish, 0.6% (318) French, and numerous Indo-Aryan languages were spoken as a main language by 0.5% (261) of the population over the age of five. In total, 17.7% (9,174) of Carson City's population age 5 and older spoke a first language other than English.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Government and politicsEdit

Template:See also Ormsby County consolidated with Carson City in 1969, and the county simultaneously dissolved.<ref name="Board">Board of Supervisors Template:Webarchive, Carson City.</ref> The city is now governed by a five-member board of supervisors, consisting of a mayor and four supervisors.<ref name="Board"/> All members are elected at-large, but each of the four supervisors must reside in respective wards, numbered 1 through 4.<ref name="Board"/> The mayor and supervisors serve four year terms. Elections are staggered so the mayor and the supervisors from Wards 2 and Ward 4 are elected in presidential election years, and the supervisors from Wards 1 and 3 are elected in the even-numbered years in between (i.e., the same year as gubernatorial elections).<ref name="Board"/>

The city is generally considered a Republican stronghold, often voting for Republicans by wide margins. In 2004, George W. Bush defeated John Kerry 57–40%. In 2008, however, Barack Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Ormsby County/Carson City, defeating John McCain 49–48%, by 204 votes, a margin of under 1%.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Carson City, being the state capital, has seen many political protests and demonstrations.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In an attempt to either make a proposed spent nuclear fuel storage facility at Yucca Mountain prohibitively expensive (by raising property tax rates to the maximum allowed) or to allow the state to collect the potential federal payments of property taxes on the facility, the state government in 1987 carved Yucca Mountain out of Nye County and created a new county with no residents out of the area surrounding Yucca called Bullfrog County. Carson City became the county seat of Bullfrog County, even though it was not in Bullfrog County and is more than Template:Convert from Yucca Mountain. A state judge found the process unconstitutional in 1989, and Bullfrog County's territory was retroceded to Nye County.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

CultureEdit

Sports and recreationEdit

Carson City has never hosted any professional team sports. However, a variety of sports are offered at parks and recreation.<ref name="CCRL">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Many neighborhood parks offer a wide variety of features including picnic tables, beaches, restrooms, fishing, softball, basketball hoops, ponds, tennis, and volleyball. The largest park is Mills Park, which has a total land area of Template:Convert and includes the Template:RailGauge narrow-gauge<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Carson & Mills Park Railroad.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> While there are no ski slopes within Carson City, the city is near the Heavenly Mountain Resort, Diamond Peak and Mount Rose Ski Tahoe skiing areas.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Carson City houses the 2024 #1 rated disc golf course in Nevada, Stadium Course At Carson Ridge.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Notable peopleEdit

Carson City has served as one of the state's centers for politics and business. Every state governor since Denver S. Dickerson has resided in the Governor's Mansion in Carson City.<ref name="Early-Carson-p60">Template:Cite book</ref> The following personalities took up residence in Carson City at some point in their lives.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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  • Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Steven S. Coughlin, American epidemiologist and author
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  • Abraham Curry, founding father of Carson City and early politician<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Paul Laxalt, former Governor and U.S. Senator<ref name=Moreno>Template:Cite book</ref>
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  • Alice Little, Irish-American sex-worker and advocate<ref name="schrager">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • David Lundquist, Major League baseball player (Chicago White Sox)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Henry Rust Mighels, journalist, politician, first husband of Nellie Verrill Mighels Davis<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Economy and infrastructureEdit

The following is a list of notable employers in Carson City from the fourth quarter of 2012:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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TransportationEdit

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Looking south on US 395, just south of US 50 in Douglas County near Carson City

There are four highways in the city: Nevada State Route 28, U.S. Route 395, U.S. Route 50, and Interstate 580, its only freeway. Phase 1 of the Carson City Freeway Project from US 395, just north of the city, to US 50 was completed in February 2006, and Phase 2A, extending from Rt. 50 to Fairview Drive, was officially opened on September 24, 2009. Phase 2B, Fairview Drive to Rt. 50, was completed in August 2017. Prior to 2012, Carson City was one of the only five state capitals not directly served by an interstate highway until I-580 was extended into the city limits.

Carson City's first modern bus system, Jump Around Carson, or JAC, opened to the public in October 2005.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> JAC uses a smaller urban bus ideal for Carson City.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Tahoe Transportation District connects Gardnerville with Carson City.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

However, there is virtually no ground public transportation to other destinations. Passenger trains have not served Carson City since 1950, when the Virginia and Truckee Railroad was shut down. Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento, California, in 2008. There is now only a limited Monday – Friday RTC bus service,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> to Reno which is still served by both Greyhound and Amtrak, as well as Eastern Sierra Transit Authority service from Lone Pine to Reno.

Carson City is also served by the Carson Airport, which is a regional airport in the northern part of the city. Reno–Tahoe International Airport, which is Template:Convert away, handles domestic commercial flights.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

EducationEdit

The Carson City School District, the sole public school district of the city,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} - Text list</ref> operates ten schools there. The six elementary schools are Bordewich-Bray Elementary School, Empire Elementary School, Fremont Elementary School, Fritsch Elementary School, Mark Twain Elementary School, and Al Seeliger Elementary School. The two middle schools are Carson Middle School and Eagle Valley Middle School. Carson High School and the alternative Pioneer High School serve high school students. Carson High is on Saliman Road.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The district sponsors Carson Montessori School, a public charter school serving grades K-6.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Students residing in any Nevada county may enroll.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Carson Montessori School is the only school in district operating with a balanced budget.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2019 Carson Montessori School received the Governor's STEM Schools Designation,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> an official recognition given to 25 schools statewide which causes a short ceremony attended by the governor during which receiving schools are assigned a 10-foot banner.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Western Nevada College (WNC) is a regionally accredited, two-year and four-year institution which is part of the Nevada System of Higher Education. The college offers many programs including education, arts and science.<ref name="WNCW">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Carson City has a public library, the Carson City Library.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Historic buildingsEdit

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    Paul Laxalt State Building – formerly the U.S. Court House & Post Office, now home to the Nevada Commission on Tourism

See alsoEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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