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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.
Range land, once free, now had to be leased or bought from the homesteaders. The Nebraska Land and Feeding Company borrowed $200,000 ($3,893,991.77 current) from the New York Trust Company through a first mortgage on the Spade Land. The ranch survived until the depression of 1922-1923, during which time the mortgages on the land were foreclosed.
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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 .
County road over Rattlesnake Creek, 2.8 miles northwest of Bancroft: Bancroft: 1903 steel Pratt half-hip pony truss bridge, oldest known example of a type designed by the Standard Bridge Company of Omaha and built throughout eastern Nebraska.
The Keya Paha River flows east-southeastward through the northeastern part of the county, while the Niobrara River flows eastward along the south county line. The county has a total area of 774 square miles (2,000 km 2), of which 773 square miles (2,000 km 2) is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km 2) (0.1%) is water. [6]
Gage County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 21,704. [1] Its county seat is Beatrice. [2] The county was created in 1855 and organized in 1857. [3] [4] [5] It was formed from land taken from the Otoe in an 1854 treaty.
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. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.