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A TIMELINE OF CLARK COUNTY HISTORY - PEOPLE AND EVENTS………….. 350 BC approximate First Anasazi/Basketmaker/Puebloan people arrive in today’s Clark County. 11/18/26 Explorer and fur trapper Jedediah Smith enters today’s Clark County near Mesquite. He links two routes forged by Spanish padres in 1776 …and becomes the first American to enter southern Nevada. 1/1830 …Antonio Armijo, leading a trading party from Santa Fe to Los Angeles, skirts the southern end of Las Vegas Valley, crossing near today’s Sunset Park. One of his scouts, Rafael Rivera, travels alone 90 miles down the Colorado before rejoining the party. Neither discovers the Las Vegas Springs. …5/3/1844 Lt. John C. Fremont and Kit Carson camp at the big springs, noting the area’s name as Las Vegas, or the meadows. Fremont’s report and map for the U.S. Army is later widely distributed. ….1848 Area now encompassed by Clark County becomes part of United States, New Mexico Territory 6/14/1855 William Bringhurst and a group of men arrive to found the Mormon mission, now known as the Old Fort, at Las Vegas. They leave less than two years later and return to Utah. 10/31/1864 Nevada becomes a state during the Civil War. ~~ [ Here is the beginning to the abswer to your question …Area now encompassed by Clark County is not part of original state of Nevada but is part of Arizona Territory 1/17/1865 - 9/27/1867 ] Keep on reading there’s more …~~~A Post office of El Dorado Canyon in operation during first mining boom. …..10/31/1864 Nevada becomes a state during the Civil War. Area now encompassed by [ Clark County is not part of original state of Nevada but is part of Arizona Territory 1/17/1865 - 9/27/1867 ] … Post office of El Dorado Canyon in operation during first mining boom. ….7/23/1866 Post office of St. Thomas opens in what was then Utah Territory, becoming Arizona in 1868 and Nevada in 1871. It is closed on 6/11/1938, when the rising waters of Lake Mead cover the town. timeline http://staging-internet.co.clark.nv.us/100/Pages/Timeline.aspx [5/25/2012 2:25:15 PM] 10/25/1866 - 6/9/1869 A U. S. Army’s camp Camp El Dorado is in existence at inland mouth of El Dorado canyon 1/1867 – 3/1868 Camp Callville created, then abandoned. Included 18 men and officers, 3 residents in town at time, 47 men rotated through camp, six deserted and one committed suicide. 10/1/1867 Not recognizing the Nevada State Legislature’s right to the land, Arizona Territory moves capital of Pah-Ute County to St. Thomas to Callville. ….1/17/1867 Nevada State legislature votes to extend southern border, taking in today’s Clark County. 1869 John Wesley Powell lands at the abandoned town of Callville to end daring trip through Grand Canyon down the rapids of the Colorado. [ 2/18/1871 Arizona Territorial Legislature finally dissolves Pah-Ute county, part of today’s Clark County. ] Here is the answer to your main question..but keep on reading there is more. —— 10/27/1879 Bunkerville post office opens. Still in operation, it was named for Edward Bunker. 7/19/1880 Post office of Mesquite is opened, closing on 8/5/1887. The post office reopens with the corrected Mesquite name on 7/27/1897. 1882 Archibald Stewart acquires the Las Vegas ranch in payment for a loan from O. D. Gass. He dies the next year in a shooting at the Kyle Ranch. His widow Helen stays on and raises her children. …5/24/1883 Overton post office reopens. The community had a post office from 4/25/1870 to 12/16/1872, when it was thought to be in Arizona Territory, but was actually in Nevada. For a brief time it was called Crosby, and had a post office under that name from Feb. 1 to May 23, 1883. 1886 First permanent settlement at Goodsprings, Nevada. A mining boom in the early 1900s led to a period of prosperity, including a large hotel. Hotel owner George Fayle was a County Commissioner. timeline http://staging-internet.co.clark.nv.us/100/Pages/Timeline.aspx[5/25/2012 2:25:15 PM] 7/22/1889 Moapa post office opens. …. [ On 1/10/1896 Post office of Sandy opens in the mining town of Sandy Valley. It closes on 9/23/1910. 5/6/1897 G. F. Colton locates his first claim, the Searchlight claim, at what is today Searchlight, Nevada. The Searchlight post office opens 10/31/1898. ….[ Here is a important part of your question …1904 Helen Stewart sells her Las Vegas Ranch property to Montana Senator William Andrews Clark for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. 1904 J. T. McWilliams lays out his Original Las Vegas Townsite [the other side of the tracks. 5/15/1905 The town of Las Vegas begins with the auction of lots in Clark’s Las Vegas Townsite. 6/17/05 Nelson post office opens near Eldorado Canyon, operating until 1929, and from 1938 to 1944 during the mining booms. It was named for Charles Nelson, a miner killed by the Indian Ahvote in 1895 ….6/28/1905 Goodsprings Junction is renamed Jean, Nevada, when the post office there is opened. It is named for the wife of postmaster George Fayle. 8/19/08 …On this date ..[ County Division Committee formed in Las Vegas to promote the idea of dividing Lincoln County in half. ~~thus creating Clark County, Nevada as it is today ..the Civic leaders donate to a war chest to pay timeline http://staging-internet.co.clark.nv.us/100/Pages/Timeline.aspx[5/25/2012 2:25:15 PM] for lobbying efforts. …………..2/5/1909 Governor Denver S. Dickerson signs the Clark County enabling bill and appoints a three-member commission. 7/1/1909 THUS Clark County comes into existence by splitting Lincoln County. Las Vegas is named the County seat, defeating Searchlight. 7/3/1909 First meeting of the Clark County Board of Commissioners takes place. Commissioners were W. E. Hawkins, chairman, S. H. Wells of Logandale and W. H. Bradley of Nelson. 1910 Clark County population is 3,321, Here is the birth of Clark County, Nevada from Laughlin to Las Vegas Area to Henderson,NV to Noorth Las Vegas, NV to Boulder City, NV to Mount Charleston,NV to Mesquite, NV to Primm, NE / Stateline Nev/ Calif border…ECT,…HERE IS MUCH MORE TO YOUR QUESTION >>>It is very interesting plz keep reading- - - You’ve heard of the Lost Dutchman’s gold mine in Arizona. Well, there’s also a lost county. We’re not kidding. One of the most famous cities in the world was once part of the state of Arizona.Did You Know one of the world’s most famous cities was once inside Arizona? In the mid-1800s the territory had a county called Pah-Ute. It was located in its northwest corner which included Las Vegas.“The part of Nevada that we’re talking about is basically that little point at the southern portion," said Michael Green, a history professor at the College of Southern Nevada. “Laughlin would be part of it. And then you go up to the mesquite area, essentially you’re going up the Colorado River, and the area was a lot greener back then. ”In 1864, Arizona Territory originally had four counties—Mohave, Yuma, Pima, and Yavapai. A year later the Arizona Territory Legislative Assembly voted to split Mohave in half to create Pah-Ute County, named after a tribal group in the area. It was created to address a growing farming community, the expanding gold, silver and lead mining industries, as well as a growing Mormon population.“There is some activity in the area, and having some form of government would presumably be a good thing for making sure that things are managed and at the same time maybe provide some offices to people who want some jobs," said Green.But in 1867, Congress expanded the already established state of Nevada by adding land west of the Colorado River, which included part of Arizona’s Pah-Ute County. Arizona Territory tried to get lawmakers to overturn the decision, some even launched protests against Congress, but it didn’t work. When Nevada’s southern border was expanded, Arizona’s got smaller.“That meant that there was no longer a reason for Pah-Ute County to exist and there was reason to keep it on the books," Green explained.So, Pah-Ute County dissolved about four years after it was created. What was left of the land in Arizona went back to Mojave County, with today’s existing boundaries. In southern Nevada, the Las Vegas area became Clark County.But get this: Green said in the early 1980s it was discovered that Nevada’s 1864 state constitution was never amended to include Clark County. For 120 years the land surrounding Las Vegas was technically...a no man’s land? But Green said even though Nevada’s constitution did not acknowledge it, the federal government did. Nevada voters eventually got around to making the fix. ( Help with some research was By Nadine Arroyo Rodriguez. ) ..BTW …Did you know that what is now the state of Arizona was part of Mexico and became part of the United States when Mexico sued the United States for peace to bring the Mexican-American War of 1847 to a close. The deal to end the war, the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo, included what was called the Mexican Cession, which transferred all of the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo México to the United States as conquered territory.The Compromise of 1850 in Congress resolved (forcibly) a number of territorial disputes (Texas, when it was a free nation, had laid claim to parts of this territory, and the 1850 Compromise authoritatively resolved these, although Texas wasn't terribly happy with the resolution) and divided the land acquired from Mexico into two territories: California (which was admitted as a State) and the New Mexico Territory. The New Mexico Territory of 1850 comprised everything acquired from Mexico in the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo not made part of California, and included parts of what are now New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado.The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo did not cede to the United States any land south of the Gila River; those portions were purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1853, in what is known as the Gadsden Purchase.The earliest proposal to admit Arizona to the Union was made in 1856. This proposal would have divided the New Mexico territory in half along the 34th parallel. It was rejected by Congress, in part because the territory had too few people, but more because the territory would have been sympathetic to the South. There was at the time a bitter dispute over the institution of slavery in the New Mexico territory: the South wanted New Mexico to be a slave territory, but the Mexican laws and traditions that had governed New Mexico when it was part of Mexico had not permitted black slavery in the territory, and the territory had largely retained those laws and traditions when it became a US territory.In 1861, Congress created the Colorado Territory, which sliced off from the New Mexico Territory everything north of the 37th parallel.In 1863, Congress bifurcated the remaining New Mexico Territory at the 109th meridian, with everything to the west of that line of longitude being designated the Arizona Territory. This was done in part to spite the Confederate States of America, which had already admitted Arizona as a Confederate State in 1862, using the 34th parallel division that had been proposed in 1856. The New Mexico Territory, as then established, would be admitted as the State of New Mexico in 1912, with the same boundaries.The Arizona Territory was to lose one more bit before becoming a state: a wedge of land running from the 37th parallel down to the Colorado River was transferred from the Arizona Territory to the State of Nevada in 1866, to give Nevada access to a river. The remaining Arizona Territory was admitted to the United States by Act of Congress on February 14, 1912, on that day becoming the 48th State to enter the Union.FYI …Did you know that The United States didn't want Arizona.Congress only begrudgingly named it a territory in the first place, and to gain statehood -- joining the 47 others -- was too grand a gesture for this rude, crude land in the Southwestern desert filled with scoundrels and ne're-do-wells. Just ask anyone east of the Missouri River from 1856 until 1912.That's 56 long years; over five decades of wanting and petitioning and planning and building and praying. So, when statehood finally came on Feb. 14, 1912, the party was something spectacular to behold.But first, there were those 56 years of disappointment.The first time there ever was anything called the Arizona Territory, it wasn't even in the United States of America. It was in the Confederate States of America, and it wasn't anything like the vertical state of today. It was an oblong hunk of land that stretched across southern New Mexico from Texas to California.Most have forgotten this piece of Arizona history, but if you looked on a map of the country as the Civil War broke out in April 1861, you wouldn't have found anything called "Arizona." Its land was swallowed up by the New Mexico Territory with a territorial capital of Santa Fe.Starting in 1856, the White settlers of this forgotten land had twice petitioned Washington for a separate Arizona Territory, and twice they were told no.The only thing going for this piece of real estate was the Butterfield Overland Stagecoach, which carried mail, freight and passengers to California. It was a route Southern congressmen had forced through with an obvious eye to the future: This is how the South would get gold from California.But as Southern congressmen left Washington to form the Confederacy, Northern politicians revoked the Butterfield contract in March 1861, severing small communities like Tucson and Mesilla (now in southern New Mexico) from the rest of the country.The secession of Southern states gave these rejected folks an alternative, and on March 16, 1861 -- a month before the Civil War broke out -- a secessionist convention was held in Mesilla, pledging Arizona as a Confederate state. On March 28, another convention in Tucson ratified the move, and Arizona again declared itself a slave state.Historian Robert Perkins surmises that Washington could have stopped this secessionist movement if it had been more considerate. Instead, it did the opposite. It pulled Union troops out of Arizona to mass along the Rio Grande, leaving the population unprotected from Mexican bandits and Apache Chief Cochise, who already was at war with White intruders.Cochise saw the retreat of the "Blue Coats" as a victory and launched a rampage that terrorized the area.Help came from rebel Lt. Col. John R. Baylor, who captured Fort Fillmore to give the settlers some protection. He declared the area a Confederate Territory, 670 miles long, with all land south of the 34th parallel from Texas to California, and named himself governor, with Mesilla as the capital.The people of Arizona welcomed Baylor with open arms, holding another convention on Aug. 28, 1861, to ratify his actions and elect Granville Henderson Oury as its delegate to the Confederate States Congress. By Oct. 1, Oury was in Richmond, Va., seeking formal status for Arizona as the South's only rebel territory.In early 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis created the Confederate Territory of Arizona. That finally got Washington's attention, and President Abraham Lincoln swept in, creating the Territory of Arizona on Feb. 24, 1863. He established the boundary line that divides it from New Mexico to this day.If Arizonans thought that was the first step in becoming a real part of the United States of America, they were sadly mistaken. There is an eerie and cruel irony in this history. Davis officially brought Arizona into his nation on Feb. 14, 1862, exactly 50 years to the day that Arizona became the last of the 48 contiguous states.Road to statehoodThe road to statehood was long and agonizing. No other territory waited as long or fought as stubbornly as the pioneers of the Arizona Territory. Looking back, their determination was unquenchable. Just 28 years after becoming a territory, the residents decided the time was ripe for statehood. In 1891, they wrote a constitution and took the train to Washington to hand-deliver it to Congress.Considering the rejection they received, one can only imagine the derisive jokes passed around congressional offices as the Arizonans went home with their tails between their legs.Seven years later, they got even more dramatic, demonstrating with blood and guts and their lives just how serious they were about statehood. In what is perhaps the most heroic action to gain statehood in the history of the nation, thousands of Arizona men answered the call for a volunteer army in 1898 to fight in the nation's first overseas war: the Spanish-American War.Not only did Arizona have thousands more volunteers than could be taken, they were the very first to volunteer and became Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. The Arizona troops were led by Prescott Capt. William "Bucky" O'Neill, who was killed and whose tombstone says it all: "Who would not die for a new star on the flag."But even the brave men of Arizona weren't enough for Congress. If they thought statehood would be their reward, they were 14 years too early.The first time Washington seriously entertained the idea of admitting Arizona was in 1903, when the chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories proposed it be combined with New Mexico and admitted as one state. They called it "jointure," and while New Mexico liked the idea, Arizona didn't, voting against it in 1906 by 16,265 to 3,141."We prefer to remain a territory indefinitely rather than lose our identity," read a petition. The Phoenix City Council was so mad that President Theodore Roosevelt seemed to give tacit approval of jointure that it changed the name of Roosevelt Street to Cleveland Street (but would eventually change it back again.)Arizona started calling itself the "47th state" in anticipation of things turning around, and in 1910, they finally did. Congress overcame its fears and told the territory to write a constitution.Arizona's Constitutional Convention opened on Oct. 10, 1910, and ran for 60 days, producing what was then considered either "one of the most progressive" constitutions of any state, or "socialistic and undemocratic." It did not include voting rights for women but did include the initiative, referendum and recall, including the recall of judges that President William Howard Taft had warned he would never approve. While some in Arizona, including its newspapers, claimed the entire effort was "all for naught" because of the recall, voters loved the constitution, passing it on Feb. 9, 1911, by 12,534 to 3,920.Taft upheld his promise and vetoed the constitution, telling the Arizona Territory it would never be admitted with that provision. Arizona responded like an obedient child, removing the recall of judges and going back to voters, who approved the sanitized constitution.Arizona was approved for statehood but would face one more disappointment. It had hoped to be admitted on Feb. 12, the birthday of President Lincoln, who remained a state champion for making it a territory in the first place…[ President Taft was busy then and didn't sign until Valentine's Day on Feb. 14, 1912. ]….[Meanwhile, New Mexico, which didn't tinker with Taft's rules on a constitution, was admitted as the 47th state on Jan. 6, 1912, making Arizona the 48th. ]As President Taft signed the official papers in Washington, D.C., at 10:23 a.m. on that Wednesday, a telegraph key brought home the message. Bisbee set off a stack of 48 sticks of dynamite, while in Globe, that magic number came from a cannon. In Tucson, sirens at the waterworks announced the news while the University of Arizona ROTC cadets executed drills. In Prescott, they raised a toast and shot off pistols on Whiskey Row while Arizona-born boys and girls helped plant a native white oak in the town plaza.In Phoenix, George W.P. Hunt walked from his downtown hotel to the state Capitol.READ THIS & ENJOY …IF NOT FOR THE VAGARIES OF POLITICS, THE GAMBLING MECCA OF THE WORLD MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN PIOCHERising out of desert haze in distant improbability, etching a jagged, fantasy line on the far horizon, America's shimmering oasis in the warm desert, as close to Mecca as a lot of people think you can get. This is...Las Vegas.Las Vegas, Nevada. At one time all this land that all this glitter and glamour and current residence of a really fickle Lady Luck sits on now...belonged to...Arizona. Long story short, all of what is now Clark County, including Las Vegas, used to be part of Arizona's Mohave County, then was split west of the Colorado River and called Pah-ute County. In 1866, though, Congress gave Pah-Ute County to the new state of Nevada,Marshall Trimble, an affable history Professor at Grand Canyon College in Phoenix and pretty much considered Arizona’s official Historian, said, "We lost the county just a few months after we got the county. Nevada, having more political pull, took it away. They were a state already and Arizona was a territory.”I sincerely hope that you learned & enjoyed the answers.I enjoyed answering your question as I am a History Major from University of Nevada at Las Vegas