Humboldt County, Nevada

Welcome to Humboldt County, Nevada Trails website. We are glad you stopped in and our wish is that you, too, will be pleased you stopped by!

This is a new site with a new host, Don Tharp and we hope to find and add data here that will help Nevada researchers track their family lines.

We need some help to do that though. We are eager to accept your family's data to place on this website. Or, if you have access to records of marriages, wills, biographies, obituries, etc., we would welcome hearig from you.

Humboldt County is Nevada's oldest county, created by the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1856. It was one of Nevada's original nine counties created in 1861.
Named for the Humboldt River which John C. Fremont named after Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist, traveler and statesman.
Unionville was the first county seat in 1861 until the mining boom died there. Then it was moved to Winnemucca on the transcontinental railroad line in 1873.