Pah-Ute County, Arizona Genealogy

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Pah-Ute County was a former county in the northwest corner of Arizona Territory from 1865 until 1871, part of which was given by the U.S. Congress on 18 January 1867 to Nevada. The former Pah-Ute County land was used to form Clark County, and the southern parts of Lincoln and Nye counties in Nevada


 * Original Arizona county, named Ewell County, organized 8 November 1864.
 * Renamed Pah-Ute County 1865.
 * Renamed again, 21 March 1895 to Mohave County


 * A major portion of original county was ceded to Nevada 5 May 1866 by an act of Congress.


 * For the records, see Mohave County

Reference

 * History of Arizona, Thomas Edwin Farish; pub. San Francisco, 1915