NEVADA, TEXAS. Nevada is on Farm Road 1138 two miles east of
Lavon Lake in southeastern Collin County. The rich soils of the
Blackland Prairies and the water provided by Bear Creek
attracted settlers to the area as early as the mid-1840s. The
first organized community in the area was McMinn Chapel,
established in the early 1840s four miles north of the site of
present Nevada. For the most part the residents of the community
were the family and friends of its founder, John McMinn. In 1861
Granville Stinebaugh moved to Texas from Missouri and purchased
160 acres of land near McMinn Chapel. Shortly thereafter the
town of Nevada was established on his farm and named by
Stinebaugh in honor of Nevada Territory, which he had passed
through on his way to search for gold in California. The town
received a post office on August 3, 1880. Eight years later the
tracks of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway reached the
community. In 1889 Nevada incorporated, choosing an aldermanic
form of government. From the 1880s to the 1