Storey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of
the 2010 census, the population was 4,010, making it the third-least
populous county in Nevada. In 2018, over 18,000 people were employed
in the county. Its county seat is Virginia City.Storey County is part
of the Reno-Sparks metropolitan area.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, actor Dick Simmons played W. Frank Stewart, a
silver-mining operator who served from 1876 to 1880 as a state senator
for Storey County, 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). Storey County, Nevada Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter