There are 16 counties and one independent city in the U.S. state of Nevada.

On November 25, 1861, the first Nevada Territorial Legislature established nine counties.

[1] Nevada was admitted to the Union on October 31, 1864, with 11 counties.

[1] In 1969, Ormsby County and Carson City were consolidated into a single municipal government known as Carson City.

[1] The FIPS county code is the five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States.