Editing Yerington, Nevada (section)

==History==

===Native people===
The [[Yerington Paiute Tribe of the Yerington Colony and Campbell Ranch]] is headquartered in Yerington.<ref>Conway, Lorna. [http://www.ypt-nsn.gov/ "Tribal Government."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717100705/http://www.ypt-nsn.gov/ |date=2012-07-17 }} ''Yerington Paiute Tribe.'' 2007 (retrieved 12 December 2008)</ref> The people, known as ''Numu'' (human beings) in their own language, have lived in the Smith and Mason Valleys in Northwestern Nevada, since around 1000 A.D.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yeringtonpaiute.us/index.php/our-culture|publisher=Yerington Paiute Tribe|access-date=2018-09-26|title=Our Culture}}</ref>

===City===
The community was formerly named '''Greenfield''', '''Mason Valley''', and '''Pizen Switch''' (irreverent nickname from the time where Yerington was a transfer - or switch - stop; and the local whiskey was so bad that it was called "poison". "Poison" came out sounding like "pizen" because of local vernacular, and the name "Pizen Switch" stuck.)

It was founded on August 6, 1871. The city was incorporated on March 17, 1907.<ref name="OPNF"/>

After the Dayton Court House burned down in 1909, the county seat was moved to Yerington in 1911.<ref name="1stSession"/>

===Wilson Ranch fire balloon===
During [[World War II]], one of many [[Japan]]ese [[Fu-Go balloon bomb]]s launched at the United States landed on the Wilson Ranch near Yerington.<ref>{{cite web | title=Japanese Balloons and Attached Devices, TAIC Report, Number 41, May 1945 | url=http://www.allworldwars.com/Japanese-Balloon-and-Attached-Devices.html | access-date=2015-02-07}}</ref> The ranchers, not knowing what it was, attempted to notify the authorities by mail, but did not receive a response until after they cut it up and used it as a hay tarp.<ref>{{cite news | last=Schindler | first=Hal | title=Utah Was Spared Damage By Japan's Floating Weapons | date=1995-05-05 | newspaper=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]] | url=http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/050595.html | access-date=2015-02-07}}</ref>