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Storey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,010,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/32/32029.html )〕 making it the third-least populous county in Nevada. Its county seat is Virginia City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Storey County is part of the Reno, NV Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Storey County was created in 1861 and named for Captain Edward Farris Storey, who was killed in 1860 in the Pyramid Lake War. It was the most populous county in Nevada when organized in 1861. Virginia City is the county seat. It was originally to be named McClellan County after General George B. McClellan, who later ran unsuccessfully against Abraham Lincoln for President in the 1864 election. Storey County benefited from the discovery of Comstock Lode silver. In 1969, the actor Dick Simmons played W. Frank Stewart, a silver mining operator who served from 1876 to 1880 as a state senator for Storey County,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nevada legislators, 1861-2015 )〕 in the episode "How to Beat a Badman" of the syndicated television series, ''Death Valley Days'', hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. In the story line, Senator Stewart is determined to gain at a bargain price a silver claim being worked by two young former outlaws (Tom Heaton and Scott Graham). The county population collapsed after the Comstock Lode was fully mined and hit a minimum of 568 in the 1960 U.S. Census. Since then, its population has partially recovered because of its relative proximity to Reno. Today, Storey County is known for its legal prostitution. In the 2006 election, Storey became the only county to vote in support of Question 7, a statewide ballot initiative to tax and regulate marijuana as if it were alcohol, measure sponsored by the Marijuana Policy Project. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Storey County, Nevada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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