<P> Virginia City sprang up as a boomtown with the 1859 discovery of the Comstock Lode , the first major silver deposit discovery in the United States , with numerous mines opening . At the city 's peak of population in the mid-1870s , it had an estimated 25,000 residents . The mines ' output declined after 1878 , and the city itself declined as a result . As of the 2010 Census the population of Virginia City was about 855 , and that of Storey County 4,000 . </P>
<P> Virginia City sprang up as a boomtown with the 1859 discovery of the Comstock Lode , the first major silver deposit discovery in the United States , with numerous mines opening . At the city 's peak of population in the mid-1870s , it had an estimated 25,000 residents . The mines ' output declined after 1878 , and the city itself declined as a result . As of the 2010 Census the population of Virginia City was about 855 , and that of Storey County 4,000 . </P>
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