Editing Lander County, Nevada (section)

==History==
Lander County was created in 1862 as the result of a mining boom on the [[Reese River]] along the old [[Pony Express|pony express]] line, taking a considerable portion of [[Churchill County, Nevada|Churchill]] and [[Humboldt County, Nevada|Humboldt]] counties with it. Named for [[Frederick W. Lander]],<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]] | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n179 180] | access-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref> chief engineer of a federal wagon route and Special Indian Agent in the area, it was one of the original 11 counties of Nevada when statehood was granted in 1864. Its first county seat was [[Jacob's Spring, Nevada|Jacob's Spring]] in 1862, which was moved to [[Austin, Nevada|Austin]] in 1863, and finally [[Battle Mountain, Nevada|Battle Mountain]] in 1979. Eventually, Lander County would be known as the "mother of counties",{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} since three other counties in Nevada were later formed from it: Elko, White Pine, and Eureka.