# Other Wars Between US States?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 5, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-wars-between-us-states/371573 "2006-09-05T20:16:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-wars-between-us-states/371573/21 "2006-09-06T18:14:10Z")

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[California v. Nevada - Roop County War](http://www.psln.com/pete/history.htm)

To summarize, a large portion of the part of California north of Lake Tahoe and east of the Sierra Nevada range was formed as Plumas County, CA. Later, someone goofed and granted Nevada an overlapping claim to the same land. Nevada formed Roop County in that area and the citizens of the area were divided over their loyalties.

Plumas County courts and tax officials tried to exert control. Roop County courts also tried to exert control. The competing courts issued arrest warrants for the offenders on each side. The governors of each state stood their ground. A citizens’ skirmish ensued with gunfire on 2/15/1863.

Later, a survey settled the matter, and the area was considered part of Plumas County, California. However, the pro-Nevada rebels, led by Peter Lassen, were pissed about the whole thing and formed Lassen County, CA by splitting from Plumas County on 4/1/1864.

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/other-wars-between-us-states/371573/22 "2006-09-06T20:09:40Z")

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[QUOTE=tomndebb]  
There was a fair amount of bluster between the colony of New Hampshire and the colony of New York over the property that eventually declared a pox on both their houses and got itself organized as Vermont, but I don’t think that anything occurred that could be called a “war” subsequent to the Declaration of Independence.

And once a Constitution was adopted, all the states tended to go along with using courts to decide issues.

(The casualties in the Toledo War were one Michigan cow and the broken arm (inflicted by the woman who had owned the cow) of the drunken Ohioan who shot it.)  
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Not quite true. A very detailed summation can be found at [Wikipedia: Toledo War](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War). There was one person stabbed, by famously named “Two Stickney.”

Also, the jurisdiction of the SCotUS to adjudicate state boundary claims wasn’t originally considered to be well established. I’ll chime in later with the case that was definitive.

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