Nevada is the county seat of Vernon County, on the main line of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway and on the Lexington Southern and the Nevada & Minden divisions of the Missouri Pacific Railway, 107 miles south of Kansas City and 280 miles west of St. Louis. It lies in the heart of an exceedingly rich agricultural, stock and fruit region, and overlies extensive beds of bituminous coal.
In this 1860 map, Nevada is called Nevada City.
Vernon County is on the Kansas/Missouri boundary.
Go to http://www.nevamo.com/NevadaThen.htm for more information on the history of Nevada.
Source:
- The Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, Vol. IV, 1901
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