COUNTY CREATED:   25 Apr 1851

COUNTY SEAT:   Nevada City

POPULATION AT TIME OF 2000 U.S. CENSUS:  92,033

EST. POPULATION 2005   98,394

COUNTY GOVERNMENT OFFICES:
950 Maidu Avenue
Nevada City CA 95959
Phone 530-265-1218

County Clerk has:

• birth records from 1873;
• marriage records from 1856;
• death from 1873;
• divorce, probate, civil court records from 1880;
• land records from 1856.

According to Kirkham's "A Genealogical and Historical Atlas of the United States of America" (Everton Pub, Inc., 1976),  in 1880, known "places" in Nevada County (and their populations) included:

Anthony House	x
Birchville	50
Blue Tent	350
Boca	200
Bronco	50
Columbia Hill	125
Freeman's Crossing	125
French Corral	527
Graniteville	225
Grass Valley	4,451
Hopkins	x
Indian Springs	110
Lake City	100
Lowell Hill	75
Magenta Flume	50
Mayert	x
Moore's Flat	435
Nevada City	3,500
North Bloomfield	724
North Columbia	x
North San Juan	675
Omega	50
Patterson	100
Pine Grove	x
Prosser	50
Rough and Ready	131
Sage Hen	26
SnowTent	25
Spenceville	350
Sweetland	100
Truckee	1,147
Washington	500
You Bet	200
Places whose population was not ascertainable are marked with an (x).