Editing Humboldt County, Nevada (section)

==History==
[[File:Santa Rosa Range, NV 2008.jpg|thumb|[[Santa Rosa Range]], Humboldt National Forest.]]

The Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone tribes have lived in Humboldt County for over 12,000 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=People of the Humboldt |url=https://shpo.nv.gov/nevadas-historical-markers/historical-markers/a-home-of-early-man#:~:text=Archaeologists%20have%20concluded%20that%20over,the%20valley%20supported%20extensive%20wetlands. |website=Nevada State Historic Preservation Office |access-date=April 12, 2025}}</ref>

Humboldt County is the oldest county in Nevada, created by the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1856. It was also one of Nevada's original nine counties created in 1861. The county is named after the [[Humboldt River]], which was named by [[John C. Frémont]] after [[Alexander von Humboldt]], a German naturalist, traveler and statesman.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n162 163] | access-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref> Humboldt never saw the places that bear his name. [[Unionville, Nevada|Unionville]] was the first county seat in 1861 until the mining boom died there and it was moved to Winnemucca on the transcontinental railroad line in 1873. {{cn|date=July 2024}}

The county was the site of an arrest in 2000 that led to the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] decision ''[[Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada]]'' in 2004.

Humboldt County is referenced in [[Brandon Flowers|Brandon Flowers']] 2015 song "Digging Up The Heart", in which the protagonist meets "Christie, queen of Humboldt County".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.directlyrics.com/brandon-flowers-diggin-up-the-heart-lyrics.html |title=Brandon Flowers - Diggin' Up The Heart Lyrics |publisher=Directlyrics.com |access-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref>