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Dawson was originally known as Noraville, and under the latter name was platted in 1872 when the Atchison and Nebraska Railroad was extended to that point. [5] The name Noraville caused considerable strife among the town's residents, who insisted on calling their town Dawson, after Joshua Dawson, an early settler.
Dawson County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 24,111. [1] Its county seat is Lexington. [2]Dawson County is part of the Lexington, NE Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Location of Dawson County in Nebraska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dawson County, Nebraska.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States.
Nebraska has 93 counties.They are listed below by name, FIPS code and license plate prefix. Nebraska's postal abbreviation is NE and its FIPS state code is 31.. When many counties were formed, the bills establishing them did not state the honoree's full name; thus the namesakes of several counties, including Brown, Deuel, Dixon, and possibly Harlan, are known only by their surnames.
Dawson: 10 25 Deuel: 5 26 Dixon: 6 27 Dodge: 22 28 Douglas: 194 29 Dundy: 2 30 Fillmore: 18 31 Franklin: 4 32 Frontier: 2 33 Furnas: 2 34 Gage: 31 35 Garden: 7 36 Garfield: 3 37 Gosper: 1 38 Grant: 2 39 Greeley: 6 40 Hall: 28 41 Hamilton: 6 43 Harlan: 7 43 Hayes: 3 44 Hitchcock: 4 45 Holt: 11 46 Hooker: 3 47 Howard: 7 48 Jefferson: 15 49 ...
Lexington is a city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 10,348 at the 2020 census, making it the 16th most populous city in Nebraska. [4] It is the county seat of Dawson County. [5] Lexington is located in southern Nebraska, on the Platte River, southeast of North Platte.
A Nebraska Historical Marker was dedicated in August 1991. The Gothenburg Historical Museum, organized in 1980, contains many historical artifacts from the Dawson County area. The Sod House Museum was established in Gothenburg in 1988.
Miles Ranch near Dawson, Nebraska was the first of the great ranches established west of the Missouri River. It was established by Stephen Boyd Miles in 1855 as part of “mail grant land” awarded by the United States Government in exchange for transporting mail, freight, and passengers between Independence, Missouri, and Salt Lake City, Utah.