Question: Which town has a greater population as of the 2010 census, Minden, Nevada or Gardnerville, Nevada?

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Gardnerville is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the county seat of Minden.  The population was 5,656 at the 2010 census. Minden is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States.  The population was 4,297 at the 2010 census.  The town is located at the western edge of the county and south of the Mohawk River, which forms its northern border.  It has possessed a post office from 1802 to 1903. Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, is an independent city and the capital of the US state of Nevada, named after the mountain man Kit Carson.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,274.  The majority of the population of the town lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 mi south of Reno.  The town originated as a stopover for California bound emigrants, but developed into a city with the Comstock Lode, a silver strike in the mountains to the northeast.  The city has served as the capital of Nevada since statehood in 1864 and for much of its history was a hub for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, although the tracks were removed in the 1950s.  Prior to 1969, Carson City was the county seat of Ormsby County.  In 1969, the county was abolished, and its territory merged with Carson City to form the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City.  With the consolidation, the city limits today extend west across the Sierra Nevada to the California state line in the middle of Lake Tahoe.  Like other independent cities in the United States, it is treated as a county-equivalent for census purposes. Douglas County is a county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Nevada.  As of the 2010 census, the population was 46,997.  Its county seat is Minden. Pioche is an unincorporated town in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States, about 180 mi northeast of Las Vegas.  U.S. Route 93 is the main route to Pioche and bypasses the town center just to the east, with Nevada State Route 321 and Nevada State Route 322 providing direct access.  Its elevation is 6060 ft above sea level.  Pioche is the county seat of Lincoln County.  It is named after François Louis Alfred Pioche, a San Francisco financier and land speculator originally from France.  The town's population was 1,002 at the 2010 census. Minden is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.  The population was 3,001 at the 2010 census.  It is the county seat of Douglas County and is adjacent to the town of Gardnerville.  It was founded in 1906 by Heinrich Friedrich Dangberg Jr., who named it after the town of Minden, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was near his father's birthplace.  Minden was founded on company land of the Dangberg Home Ranch and Dangberg commissioned most of the town's early buildings.  Minden has had a post office since 1906. Gardnerville Ranchos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.  As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 11,312.  The area is the namesake for the Gardnerville Ranchos Micropolitan Statistical area which includes other areas of Douglas County. Nevada ( , unlike the state of Nevada) is a city in Collin County, Texas, United States.  The population was 822 at the 2010 census.  First settled in 1835 by John McMinn Stambaugh and named "McMinn Chapel", the area was settled by Granville Stinebaugh, who named it after the Nevada Territory.  Nevada enjoyed some prosperity after becoming a stop on the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, and the town incorporated in 1889. Denio is a census-designated place (CDP) that lies on the Nevada-Oregon state line in Humboldt County, Nevada, in the United States.  There was formerly a Denio post office north of the state line in Harney County, Oregon.  The population of the CDP, which is entirely in Nevada, was 47 at the 2010 census; additional development considered to be Denio extends into Oregon.  The CDP includes a post office, a community center, a library, and the Diamond Inn Bar, the center of the town's social life.  Recreational activities available in the Denio area include fishing, opal mining, rockhounding, hunting, and visiting the hot springs.  The Humboldt County School District operates the Denio School, a kindergarten-eighth grade (K-8) school, on the Nevada side of the state line. Sibley is a town in south Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States.  The population was 1,218 at the 2010 census.  It is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area.

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Minden is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.  The population was 3,001 at the 2010 census. Gardnerville is an unincorporated town in Douglas County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the county seat of Minden.  The population was 5,656 at the 2010 census.