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Situated in western Nevada on the California border near Lake Tahoe, Douglas is a small
county of only 738 square miles (1,910 square kilometers) with a rapidly growing population.
Although the population in 2006 was only fifty thousand, it had increased from forty thousand since the 2000 census.
Douglas was one of the original nine Nevada counties created in 1861. The town of Genoa, founded by Mormon
traders in 1851, was the first permanent settlement in Nevada. Genoa was the county seat until 1915 when the
county government relocated to Minden.
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