Nevada Revised Statutes Title 20. Counties and Townships: Formation, Government and Officers § 243.015. Organized as distinct county--1864

Churchill County, with its western boundary fixed on the line of longitude 41°40′ west, as established by DeGroot's map of Nevada Territory, published in 1863, and with its other boundaries as established by law, is organized into a distinct county, with all the rights, privileges and immunities thereunto belonging.