Editing Lyon County, Nevada (section)

==History==
Lyon County was one of the nine original counties created on November 25, 1861.<ref>{{cite web|title=Creation of Nevada's Counties|url=https://www.nvnaco.org/about/county-history/|publisher=Nevada Association of Counties|access-date=November 25, 2017}}</ref> It was named after [[Nathaniel Lyon]], the first Union General to be killed in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gannett|first=Henry|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|year=1905|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n192 193]|access-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref> Its first [[county seat]] was established at [[Dayton, Nevada|Dayton]] on November 29, 1861,<ref name="1stSession">{{cite book |author=<!--Legislative Assembly, Territory of Nevada.--> |title=Laws of the Territory of Nevada passed at the first regular session of the Legislative Assembly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oq0wAQAAMAAJ |location=San Francisco, CA |publisher=Valentine & Co. |pages=289–291 |date=1862 |access-date=May 14, 2014 }}</ref> which had just changed its name from [[Nevada City, Nevada|Nevada City]] in 1862, and which had been called Chinatown before that. After the Dayton Court House burned down in 1909, the seat was moved to [[Yerington, Nevada|Yerington]] in 1911. There were stories that it was named for Captain Robert Lyon, a survivor of the [[Paiute War|Pyramid Lake War]] in 1860, but Nevada State Archives staff discovered a county seal with the picture of the Civil War general, settling the conflict.<ref>{{cite news | title = Lyon got its name where? | newspaper = Mason Valley News | location = [[Yerington, Nevada]] | page = 50 | date = March 12, 1993 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32469168/lyon_got_its_name_where/ | access-date = June 8, 2019}}</ref>