Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the 6th most populous city in the state. The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 miles south of Reno. The city is named after the mountain man Kit Carson. The town began as a stopover for California-bound immigrants, but developed into a city with the Comstock Lode, a silver strike in the mountains to the northeast. The city has served as Nevada's state capital / capital city since 1861 of the old federal Nevada Territory, and since statehood in 1864, during the American Civil War, now for 160 years. For much of its history it was a hub for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, although the railroad tracks were removed in 1950.
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