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| | Pahrump Valley Times - Nye County's Largest Newspaper Circulation |
 | | The Nevada State Demographer says Nye's population of 36,651 is 7th in the State, behind Clark (1,620,748), Washoe (373,233), Carson City (55,220; Carson City is treated as a county because of a combined city-county form of government), Elko (45,805), Douglas (45,603), and Lyon (41,244) counties. |
 | | Nye County must derive its tax base, and therefore its ability to provide services to its residents, from this very small percent of its total land mass. |
 | | One anecdote arising from the huge size of the county: When I was a prosecutor in the district attorney's office in Tonopah, I realized that south county residents called for jury duty in Tonopah had gotten up probably by 4 or 430 a.m. |
| www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com /2004/06/25/news/nyecounty.html (815 words) |
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