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The county was formed in 1886; it took its name from a large box-shaped butte north of Alliance. In the Nebraska license plate system, Box Butte County is represented by the prefix 65 (it had the sixty–fifth largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
English: This is a locator map showing Box Butte County in Nebraska. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Alliance is a city and the county seat of Box Butte County, [3] in the western part of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. Its population was 8,151 at the 2020 census. [4] Alliance is home to Carhenge, a replica of Stonehenge constructed with automobiles, which is located north of the city. It is also the ...
Box Butte County: 013: Alliance: 1887: Formed from Dawes County: A box-shaped butte north of Alliance: 65 10,692: 1,075 sq mi (2,784 km 2) Boyd County: 015: Butte: 1891: Holt County and unorganized territory (Indian Territory) James E. Boyd, the eighth governor of Nebraska: 63 1,725: 540 sq mi (1,399 km 2) Brown County: 017: Ainsworth: 1883 ...
The Box Butte County Courthouse, which is located on Box Butte Ave. between E. 5th and 6th Sts. in Alliance, Nebraska, is a historic building that was built in 1913. It was designed by Rose & Peterson in Beaux Arts architectural style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
Box Butte Reservoir State Recreation Area (SRA) is a state park in northwestern Nebraska, United States. The recreation area is located on the 1,600 acre Box Butte Reservoir , a reservoir on the Niobrara River , approximately 9.5 miles (15.3 km) north of Hemingford and about 31 miles (50 km) southeast of Crawford .
Carhenge, an art installation along the route in Box Butte County. Nebraska Highway 87 begins at an intersection with NE 2 in Alliance. It heads in a northerly direction before turning to the northeast through farmland. It turns northward again before heading into Hay Springs.
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