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Carson City is an independent city and the capital of Nevada, and it is treated as a county-equivalent for census purposes because it is not part of any county.

The city was founded in 1858, when Abraham Curry bought the Eagle Station trading post and renamed the settlement Carson City after the mountain man Kit Carson.

Carson City was incorporated in 1875 and has served as Nevada's capital since 1861, when Nevada was still a territory, and was confirmed as the permanent state capital when Nevada became a state in 1864.

On April 1, 1969, Carson City and Ormsby County merged into the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, dissolving Ormsby County, and the city limits now extend west across the Sierra Nevada to the California-Nevada state line in the middle of Lake Tahoe.

The 2020 census counted 58,639 people in Carson City, making it the sixth most populous city in Nevada, and the city had 23,419 households and 24,564 housing units in the 2020 census.

Carson City covers 157.12 square miles, of which 144.53 square miles is land, and most of its population lives in Eagle Valley, about 30 miles south of Reno.

The Washoe people have inhabited the Eagle Valley area for about 6,000 years, and John C. Fremont's exploration party first reached the valley in January 1843, naming the Carson River for Kit Carson.

The Nevada State Capitol was built from 1869 to 1871, and the Carson City Mint struck United States gold and silver coins from 1870 to 1893.

Carson City's population fell to just over 1,500 people by 1930, and the city advertised itself as "America's smallest capital" before growing again after World War II.

Mills Park, the city's largest park at 51 acres, includes the narrow-gauge Carson and Mills Park Railroad.