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  Nye County, Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nye is the third largest county in terms of area in the continental United States.
Nye is the largest county in Nevada and is the third largest county in the continental United States.
Mineral and Esmeralda counties are at its western borders, Lincoln and Clark counties are at its eastern borders and Inyo County, California is at its southern border.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nye_County,_Nevada   (668 words)

  
 EPA Brownfields Assessment Pilots, Nye County, NV
Nye County, located east of Death Valley National Park in the south-central portion of Nevada, is the largest county in Nevada and the third largest county in the United States, covering 18,155 square miles.
Nye County has suffered the boom-bust effects of mineral mining and defense and energy-related activities over the years, and is trying to stimulate a pattern of diverse, stable economic growth on a limited amount of land (the federal government owns 98 percent of the land in the county).
The county’s objective is to prepare properties in the target communities for reuse, thereby increasing the amount of land attractive for new commercial and industrial development.
www.epa.gov /brownfields/html-doc/anyecoun.htm   (471 words)

  
 CNN - 'Sagebrush rebellion' quieted -- for now - March 15, 1996
The county came to national attention as the seat of the so-called sagebrush rebellion, a series of efforts by local governments to wrest land control from the federal authorities.
The lawsuit sought to assert once and for all the government's ownership of federal lands in Nye County and, by legal inference, its possession of public lands that cover one-third of the nation's ground.
She says Nye County never had a chance of winning, but victory was never the object.
www.cnn.com /US/9603/sagebrush   (453 words)

  
 Nye Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The force powering Nye County rebellion are those sculpting the political and social landscape of America at large.
Nye's particular brand of rebellion is driven too by an intense feeding that the combined forces of federal law, environmental activism and urban growth may have doomed a mythic frontier lifestyle.
Distilled to its bare essence, Nye County's argument is this: Under the equal footing doctrine, new states admitted to the Union were to enter with all the\par dignity and sovereignty of the original 13.
www.localsov.com /local/nye.htm   (3065 words)

  
 Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Mission: The Nevada Test Site, created in the early 1950s, is used as a detonation and testing range for both nuclear and non-nuclear weapons.
Negotiation of an FFA with the State of Nevada was initiated in FY 93 under RCRA and the Atomic Energy Act.
Funds budgeted for environmental restoration for Nevada Test Site total $45.4 million of appropriated funding for FY 96 and $51.1 million for FY 97 according to the request in the President's Budget.
web.em.doe.gov /cercla/5-04nts.html   (442 words)

  
 Nye County Treasurer's Office
Located in the County Seat of Tonopah, Nevada, the Nye County Treasurer’s Office is the property tax collector for the towns of Tonopah, Pahrump, Beatty, Gabbs, Round Mountain, Amargosa, the Nye County School District, the State of Nevada and other taxing entities within Nye County.
Nye County schedules a land auction tax sale from time to time as is necessary.
There are two actual tax sales, one for Northern Nye County which includes Tonopah, Beatty and surrounding areas and one for Southern Nye County which includes the Pahump area.
www.nyecounty.net /Treasurer/treashp.html   (533 words)

  
 #420 Environment - Nye County
"Nye County has enacted resolutions claiming ownership and management rights over the federal public lands, and taken confrontational actions implementing these resolutions," argued Peter Coppelman, the Department's Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division.
In 1993, Nye County Commissioners approved a resolution that claims the State of Nevada, not the United States, owns national forests and other federal lands.
"Nye County's resolutions and actions based upon these resolutions have not only been aggressive and confrontational, but flatly unconstitutional as well," said Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment Division.
www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/Pre_96/July95/420.txt.html   (352 words)

  
 The Ely-Goldfield Railroad and Other Vapor Routes
The Comstock, perhaps the greatest mining strike in history, launched statehood for the Nevada Territory, fueled the Union treasury during the Civil War, underwrote the banking and financial economy of San Francisco, and developed new mining and transportation technologies that were a foundation for the twentieth-century silver and copper strikes in Nevada.
The Nevada United Mines Co. held properties in Ward and a survey was made for a 14-mile railroad north to Ely where connection with the NN would provide access to the smelters at Salt Lake City.
The question of new railroad construction is agitating the press and people of the state of Nevada to a considerable degree, the reports of new lines to connect the eastern and western parts of the state, which have gained wide circulation for two years past, are a source of particular interest.
nn.railfan.net /vapor/vapor.htm   (4517 words)

  
 Art Bell's Hometown Of Pahrump/Nye County, Nevada Leads Nation In Suicide Rate
Jennings' death in rural Nye County contributed to a puzzling national statistic -- rural residents kill themselves at a higher rate than those in urban areas.
Nye County, where Jennings died, has only 30,000 residents but covers 11.6 million acres of central Nevada, the third-largest county in the nation.
Nevada's overall rate last year was 20.18 per 100,000, almost double the national rate of 11.31 in 1998, the most recent figure available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.rense.com /general4/suiasd.htm   (813 words)

  
 Sierra Pacific Power Company Economic Development
Nevada boasts one of the most liberal tax structures in the nation and from a tax-planning perspective, the return on investment in the form of tax saving dollars can be enormous.
Two Washoe County businesses are expanding their operations and have received financial incentives from the Nevada Commission on Economic Development.
More than 82,000 companies incorporated in Nevada last year, which is a 15 percent increase from 2004 and keeps the state in the top 10 nationwide for incorporations, a deputy secretary said Wednesday.
econdev.sierrapacific.com   (480 words)

  
 Nye County Genealogy
Nye County was created in 1864 from Esmeralda County and is the largest county in the
Governor of Nevada Territory and a United States Senator from Nevada.
County land is owned by the Federal Goverment.
www.rootsweb.com /~nvnye   (86 words)

  
 Rip Off Report:Corruption: Attorney's & Consultant's in Nye County Nevada ..The Case of the Milkmaid of Nye County ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In addition, she was assigned responsibility of providing legal assistance to the Nye County Hospital District until the Hospital District sued Nye County, just one of numerous law suits the county has had to defend due to mismanagement, incompetence, willful neglect and illegal activities.
Never mind that there were budget constraints in Nye County at that time and the hiring was in direct violation of a July 1996 Nye County Resolution 96-13 against filling job vacancies.
Nicholson was ADVISING the County Commissioners on legal matters, one would find it very difficult to believe that they were not aware of the situation of the sexual harassment when the women were bringing their concerns to Ms.
www.ripoffreport.com /reports/ripoff3513.htm   (2159 words)

  
 Nye Co., NV
Nye County is the largest county in Nevada.
Nye County was named to honor James Warren Nye, U.S. Senator and Governor of the Nevada Territory.
Nye County is the home of the Yomba Indian Reservation also known as the Reese River Valley reservation, and a small portion of the Duck Water Indian Reservation.
www.usgennet.org /usa/nv/state/alhn-nye/nye-county.htm   (259 words)

  
 NWRPO Home Page
The Nye County Nuclear Waste Repository Project Office (NWRPO) works to protect the interests of the citizens of Nye County in activities and negotiations related to the transport, disposal and storage of nuclear waste in and through the County.
Nye County has established certain rights of participation related to nuclear waste activities occurring within its boundaries.
These are defined under the terms of the amended 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act, the Nye County Comprehensive Plan, and the Framework for Formal Interactions with the U.S. Department of Energy.
www.nyecounty.com   (199 words)

  
 0221: Nye County
Born June 19, 1916 and Helen Bettles was born June 7, 1917 in Mina, Nevada.
University of Nevada, Reno, and is used for vaccination and de-horning.
Nevada (admission is free), seated in the canyon with the suspension bridge and
www.library.unlv.edu /speccol/photographs/0221_NyeCo.html   (9967 words)

  
 Right to bear arms always exercised in Nye County [Nevada]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Many newcomers to Nye County, Pahrump in particular, are of the opinion that he and others are in violation of some law.
For instance, Clark County requires you to have a registration to open carry, and you must carry your registration with you when you are carrying a gun.
Again in the 1970s Nevada tried to entice Inyo and Mono to become part of the state and it was put on the California ballot, barely losing by just a few votes, mainly because of the anti gambling do-gooders.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1390901/posts   (2114 words)

  
 Pahrump Valley Times - Nye County's Largest Newspaper Circulation
I don't consider myself an aristocratic type of guy so I would never seriously imagine what it would be like to be King of Nye County.
I'm not the king of England, thank goodness, and even though I did hitchhike thousands of miles in the late '70s and early '80s, I'm not, as was Roger Miller, king of the road.
And I'm not the king of Nye County, but if I were...
www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com /2005/08/12/opinion/doug.html   (865 words)

  
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The Nye County Democratic Central Committee is looking for a few good ladies that like to do quilting.
The purpose of this website is to keep Nye County Democrats informed of local, state and national news, political affairs, democratic candidates, meetings of the Nye County Democratic Central Committee, and elections.
It is the primary way for the Nye County Central Committee to communicate with you and for YOU to communicate with the Committee.
ncdcc.org   (1926 words)

  
 Journal of Paleontology: Mid-carboniferous ammonoid biostratigraphy, southern Nye County, Nevada: Implications of the ...
Nomenclature and regional depositional framework.-In most areas where it is exposed in Nevada and western Utah, the Chesterian (Mississippian)-Morrowan (Pennsylvanian) boundary lies within the lower portion of the Ely or Bird Spring Formations (Webster et al., 1984).
In its type area of east-central Nevada, the Chainman is primarily a deep-water mudstone succession that is of late Mississippian age (Wilson and Laule, 1979).
Early Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) carbonate strata developed on this unconformity are referred to the Tippipah Limestone in southern Nye County, Nevada, while that contact is an intraformational unconformity within the Bird Spring or Ely Limestones throughout much of eastern Nevada.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3790/is_200107/ai_n8971047   (1304 words)

  
 Nevada - Nye County
Wingfield was an important mining financier in central western Nevada.
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bullfrog District, Nevada, 1910.
The company owned one patented claim at Manhattan, Nye County and was operated intermittently by lessees in 1915-16.
www.holabird.org /americana2002/archive/Auction11/nye.htm   (5825 words)

  
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We are excited about this opportunity to inform residents of Nye County as well as web site visitors from around the world about the Nye County Sheriff’s Office.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office is dedicated to the philosophy and the implementation of the principles of community policing.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office strives to establish and maintain a relationship with the community in order to ensure needs are met as it relates to law enforcement and crime prevention.
www.nyecountysheriff.net   (288 words)

  
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Campbell, Edith Ciora Allison, 1979, Palynology and paleoecology of the Miocene lignites of the Goose Creek basin, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah [M.S.]: Univ. Utah.
Clement, S.C., 1961, Mineralogy of the Copper Canyon Quartz Monzonite porphyry, Lander County, Nevada [M.S.]: Univ. Utah.
Coles, K.S., 1988, Stratigraphy and structure of the Pinecone Sequence, Roberts Mountains allochthon, Nevada, and aspects of Mid-Paleozoic sedimentation and tectonics in the Cordilleran geosyncline [Ph.D.]: Columbia University, 1:24,000.
www.nbmg.unr.edu /nvtheses.htm   (20416 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Nye County, Nev.
For convenient presentation of this material, the site includes a page for each of the more than 3,000 counties in the U.S., as well as for various U.S. and foreign territories and countries.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
The intent is to locate places according to current county names and boundaries.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/NV/NY.html   (512 words)

  
 Pahrump USA Pahrump Township in Nye County Nevada
Pahrump Nevada: A wonderful old fashion western community with beautiful sunsets, awesome mountain views, terrific weather and good people.
Zoning issues plague the taxpayer, town and county, with no real solution on how to make the approved zoning work or pay for its self.
Snip> The area was zoned for brothels, all 300 acres of it.
www.pahrumpusa.com   (701 words)

  
 EPA: Federal Register: Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the ...
The Department has prepared this Supplement in accordance with the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended (NWPA), the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), the Council on Environmental Quality regulations that implement the procedural provisions of NEPA, and the DOE procedures implementing NEPA.
Nevada State Clearinghouse--Contact: Heather Elliot; (775) 684- 0209; Department of Administration; 209 E. Musser Street, Room 200; Carson City, NV 89701.
Nye County--Contact: Les Bradshaw; (775) 727-7727; c/o Department of Natural Resources and Federal Facilities; 1210 E. Basin Ave., Suite 6; Pahrump, NV 89048.
www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2001/May/Day-04/i11275.htm   (2341 words)

  
 The Atomic Frontier: Atmospheric Testing in Nevada, The Two Sides By Julie Etchegaray - Summer 2001 Newsletter
Nobody died and the only livestock affected were the cows and calves in the meadow beyond the house that received bad radiation burns on their backs.
She won the Nevada History Day competition with this essay and went to Washington D.C. in June to represent Nevada in the National History Day competition.
This was published for the employees of the U.S. Department of Energy's Nevada Operations Office, it's contractors and members of the public.
www.yuccamountain.org /julie.htm   (3566 words)

  
 Nye County, Nevada
Population by Race and Hispanic or Latino origin: Nevada counties, Places in Nevada
Historical population counts, 1900 to 1990, for all counties in Nevada
Summary statistics for Nevada counties by NAICS (North American Industry Classification System): 2002
quickfacts.census.gov /qfd/states/32/32023lk.html   (224 words)

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