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Nebraska County Creation Dates and Parent Counties

Note
 See an interactive outline map of Nebraska Historical Counties at Newberry Library site.[1] Select a year and the map will display the historical county boundaries. Click on map image for county details.


Tip: Sort the table by Date Formed or by Parent Counties and check Boundary Changes for interesting insights.
Name of County Date Formed Boundary
Changes 		Parent County Counties Created by Boundary Changes
Adams 1867 Feb 16 Details Unorganized territory none
Antelope 1871 Mar 1 Details Unorganized territory none
Arthur 1887 Mar 31 Details Unorganized territory none
Banner 1888 Nov 6 Details Cheyenne none
Blackbird 1855 Mar 16 Details Burt Dixon 1856
Blaine 1888 Mar 5 Details Unorganized territory none
Boone 1871 Mar 1 Details Unorganized territory none
Box Butte 1886 Nov 2 Details Dawes none
Boyd 1891 Aug 1 Details Unorganized territory none
Brown 1883 Feb 19 Details Unorganized territory Keya Paha 1884, Rock 1888
Buffalo 1855 Mar 16 Details Unorganized territory Hall and Merrick 1858, Sherman 1871
Burt 1854 Nov 23 Details Unorganized territory Blackbird, Cuming, Dakota, Izard, Loup, and McNeale 1855, Thurston 1889
Butler 1856 Jan 26 Details Greene, Loup (extinct), York none
Calhoun 1856 Jan 26 Details Greene, Lancaster renamed Saunders 1862
Cass 1854 Nov 23 Details Unorganized territory Greene, Lancaster, Otoe, and York 1855
Cedar 1857 Feb 12 Details Dixon, Pierce none
Chase 1873 Feb 27 Details Unorganized territory none
Cherry 1883 Feb 23 Details Sioux, unorganized territory none
Cheyenne 1867 Jun 22 Details Unorganized territory Banner, Deuel, Kimball, and Scotts Bluff 1888, Morrill 1908
Clay 1867 Feb 16 Details Unorganized territory none
Colfax 1869 Feb 15 Details Platte none
Cuming 1855 Mar 16 Details Burt none
Custer 1877 Feb 17 Details Unorganized territory none
Dakota 1855 Mar 16 Details Burt, unorganized territory none
Dawes 1885 Feb 19 Details Sioux Box Butte 1886
Dawson 1860 Jan 11 Details Unorganized territory none
Deuel 1888 Nov 6 Details Cheyenne Garden 1909
Dixon 1856 Jan 26 Details Blackbird (extinct), Izard, McNeale (extinct), unorganized territory Cedar 1857
Dodge 1854 Nov 23 Details Unorganized territory Platte 1856, Sarpy 1857
Douglas 1854 Nov 23 Details Unorganized territory Sarpy 1857
Dundy 1873 Feb 27 Details Unorganized territory none
Fillmore 1856 Jan 26 Details Jackson (extinct), unorganized territory none
Forney 1854 Nov 23 Details Unorganized territory Gage, Nemaha, Pawnee 1855, lost all territory to Nemaha, Otoe, Clay 1856
Franklin 1867 Feb 16 Details Kearney none
Frontier 1872 Jan 17 Details Unorganized territory none
Furnas 1873 Feb 27 Details Unorganized territory none
Gage 1855 Mar 16 Details Forney (extinct), Richardson none
Garden 1909 Nov 02 Details Deuel none
Garfield 1884 Oct 4 Details Wheeler none
Gosper 1873 Aug 29 Details Unorganized territory none
Grant 1887 Mar 31 Details Unorganized territory none
Greeley 1871 Mar 1 Details Unorganized territory none
Greene 1855 Mar 16 Details Cass, Pierce (old) Butler, Calhoun, and Platte 1856, renamed Seward 1862
Hall 1858 Nov 4 Details Buffalo, unorganized territory Howard 1871
Hamilton 1867 Feb 16 Details Unorganized territory none
Harlan 1871 Jun 3 Details Kearney none
Hayes 1877 Feb 19 Details Unorganized territory none
Hitchcock 1873 Feb 27 Details Unorganized territory none
Holt 1862 Jan 9 Details renamed from West, unorganized territory none
Hooker 1889 Mar 29 Details Unorganized territory none
Howard 1871 Mar 1 Details Hall none
Izard 1855 Mar 16 Details Burt, unorganized territory renamed Stanton 1862
Jefferson 1856 Jan 26 Details Jones (extinct), unorganized territory Thayer 1871
Johnson 1856 Feb 10 Details Nemaha, Pawnee none
Kearney 1860 Jan 10 Details Unorganized territory Franklin 1867, Harlan 1871, Phelps 1873
Keith 1873 Feb 27 Details Unorganized territory Perkins 1887
Keya Paha 1884 Dec 17 Details Brown none
Kimball 1888 Nov 6 Details Cheyenne none
Knox 1857 Feb 10 Details renamed from L’Eau Qui Court 1873 none
Lancaster 1855 Mar 16 Details Cass, Pierce (old) Calhoun 1856
L’Eau Qui Court 1857 Feb 10 Details Pierce, unorganized territory renamed Knox 1873
Lincoln 1860 Jan 7 Details renamed from Shorter 1861 none
Logan 1885 Feb 24 Details Unorganized territory none
Loup 1883 Feb 23 Details Unorganized territory none
Madison 1856 Jan 26 Details McNeale (extinct), unorganized territory none
McPherson 1887 Mar 31 Details Unorganized territory none
Merrick 1858 Nov 4 Details Buffalo, Polk, unorganized territory none
Morrill 1908 Nov 3 Details Cheyenne none
Nance 1879 Jun 1 Details Pawnee Indian Reservation none
Nemaha 1855 Mar 16 Details Forney (extinct), Richardson Johnson 1857
Nuckolls 1860 Jan 13 Details Unorganized territory none
Otoe 1855 Mar 16 Details Cass, Pierce (old) none
Pawnee 1855 Mar 16 Details Forney (extinct), Richardson Johnson 1857
Perkins 1887 Nov 8 Details Keith none
Phelps 1873 Feb 11 Details Kearney none
Pierce 1856 Jan 26 Details McNeale (extinct), unorganized territory Cedar, L’Eau Qui Court 1857
Platte 1856 Jan 26 Details Dodge, Loup (extinct) Colfax 1869
Polk 1856 Jan 26 Details York, unorganized territory Merrick 1858
Red Willow 1873 Feb 27 Details Unorganized territory none
Richardson 1854 Nov 23 Details Unorganized territory Gage, Nemaha, and Pawnee 1855
Rock 1888 Nov 6 Details Brown none
Saline 1855 Mar 16 Details Jones (extinct) none
Sarpy 1857 Feb 7 Details Dodge, Douglas none
Saunders 1856 Jan 26 Details renamed from Calhoun 1862 none
Scotts Bluff 1888 Nov 6 Details Cheyenne none
Seward 1855 Mar 16 Details renamed from Greene 1862 none
Sheridan 1885 Feb 25 Details Sioux none
Sherman 1871 Mar 1 Details Buffalo, unorganized territory none
Shorter 1860 Jan 7 Details Unorganized territory renamed Lincoln 1861
Sioux 1877 Feb 19 Details Unorganized territory Cherry 1883, Dawes and Sheridan 1885
Stanton 1855 Mar 16 Details renamed from Izard 1862 none
Thayer 1871 May 9 Details Jefferson none
Thomas 1887 Mar 31 Details Unorganized territory none
Thurston 1889 Mar 28 Details Burt, Wayne none
Valley 1871 Mar 1 Details Unorganized territory none
Washington 1854 Nov 23 Details Unorganized territory none
Wayne 1871 Mar 4 Details Unorganized territory Thurston 1889
Webster 1867 Feb 16 Details Unorganized territory none
West 1860 Jan 13 Details Unorganized territory Holt 1862
Wheeler 1877 Feb 17 Details Unorganized territory Garfield 1884
York 1855 Mar 16 Details Cass, Jones (extinct), Pierce (old) Polk, Butler, and Greene 1856

References

  1. ↑ Nebraska Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, John H. Long, Editor; Peggy Tuck Sinko, Associate Editor; Gordon DenBoer, Historical Compiler; Douglas Knox, Book Digitizing Director and Digital Compiler; Emily Kelley, Research Associate; Laura Rico-Beck, GIS Specialist; Peter Siczewicz, ArcIMS Interactive Map Designer; Robert Will, Cartographic Assistant. Copyright The Newberry Library 2008.
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