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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.
Western Nebraska counties to which the Kinkaid Act applied. The Kinkaid Act of 1904 (ch. 1801, 33 Stat. 547, Apr. 28, 1904, 43 U.S.C. § 224) is a U.S. statute that amended the 1862 Homestead Act so that one section (1 mi 2, 2.6 km 2, 640 acres) of public domain land could be acquired free of charge, apart from a modest filing fee.
Brown County is a county located in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Hiawatha. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 9,508. [1] The county was named after Albert G. Brown, a U.S. Senator from Mississippi and Kansas
A post office was established at Hiawatha in 1889, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1933. [2] The town was likely named after The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [3] The town's name was originally "Neel" but was changed in 1889. [4] Nobody lives there.
The 1904 Kinkaid Act amended the Homestead Act to provide 640-acre land claims (260 ha) for African-American homesteaders in Nebraska's Sand Hills. This lured a number of African-American families to move to the area. [4] By 1910 twenty-four families filed claim to 14,000 acres (57 km 2) of land in Cherry County.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Richardson County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,871. [1] Its county seat is Falls City. [2]In the Nebraska license plate system, Richardson County is represented by the prefix 19 (it had the nineteenth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Red Willow County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 10,702. [1] Its county seat is McCook. [2] In the Nebraska license plate system, Red Willow County is represented by the prefix 48 (it had the forty-eighth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).