Carson City | Nevada, United States
Carson City, capital of Nevada, U.S., in Eagle Valley near the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada range, 30 miles (48 km) south of Reno and 14 miles (23 km) east of Lake Tahoe. Founded in 1858 on the site of Eagle Station (later Eagle Ranch), it took its name from the nearby Carson River, which the explorer John C. Frémont, who explored the region in 1843–44, named for his scout, Christopher (“Kit”) Carson. The city was made the seat of Carson county, Utah Territory, on March 1, 1861, a day before the Territory of Nevada was created by the