The New International Encyclopædia/Nevada (Missouri)

NEVADA. A city and the county-seat of Vernon County, Mo., 100 miles south of Kansas City; on the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads (Map: Missouri, B 4) . It has a Roman Catholic convent school, and is the seat of a State lunatic asylum and of Cottey College for Young Ladies (Methodist Episcopal, South), opened in 1884. A prominent feature of the city is Lake Park, named from a beautiful lake within the municipal limits. Nevada controls considerable trade in the products of the agricultural and stock-raising district of which it is the centre, and has large zinc smelters, a foundry and iron works, and saw, planing, flour, and feed mills. Nevada became the county-seat in 1858, and was incorporated in 1870. It is governed, under a charter of 1880, by a mayor, elected every two years, and a unicameral council. Population, in 1890, 7262; in 1900, 7461.