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Map of the United States with Nebraska highlighted. Nebraska is a state located in the Midwestern United States.According to the 2020 census, Nebraska was the 37th most populous state with 1,961,504 inhabitants [1] and the 15th largest by land area spanning 76,824.17 square miles (198,973.7 km 2) of land.
The U.S. state of Nebraska is divided into 93 counties, 25 of which are divided into a total of 460 townships. [1] 63 are divided into precincts where there is no township government. Four counties have neither a township nor a precinct subdivision: Banner, Hooker, Thomas, and Arthur.
This 1988 BLM map depicts the principal meridians and baselines used for surveying states (colored) in the Public Land Survey System. The Public Land Survey System ( PLSS ) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat , or divide, real property for sale and settling.
This is a list of unincorporated communities in Nebraska. All communities on this list are census-designated places , are listed on the official Nebraska highway map, have post offices located in the community, or have FIPS place codes .
The legal description of a tract of land under the PLSS includes the name of the state, name of the county, township number, range number, section number, and portion of a section. Sections are customarily surveyed into smaller squares by repeated halving and quartering. A quarter section is 160 acres (65 ha) and a "quarter-quarter section" is ...
The 1904 Kinkaid Act allowed homesteaders to claim 640 acres (260 ha; 2.6 km 2) of land, rather than the 160 acres (65 ha; 0.65 km 2) allowed by the 1862 Homestead Act. [10] Nearly nine million acres (36,000 km 2) were claimed by "Kinkaiders" between 1910 and 1917. Some of the Kinkaiders farmed the land, but these attempts generally failed.
Map of the United States with Nebraska highlighted. Nebraska is a state located in the Midwestern United States that is divided into 93 counties and contains 50 census-designated places (CDPs). [1] All population data is based on the 2010 census.
Nebraska hydrogeology is known through extensive irrigation well drilling for agriculture. In the early 1990s, a USGS study focused on Shelton, Nebraska and the Platte River found Holocene and Pleistocene sand and gravel deposits interbedded with clay and silt between 45 and 100 feet thick, overlying other Quaternary silt deposits between 10 ...