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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.
Nye County was established during the American Civil War in 1864 and named after James W. Nye, the first governor of the Nevada Territory and later a U.S. Senator after it was admitted as a state. The first county seat was Ione in 1864, followed by Belmont in 1867, and finally Tonopah in 1905.
York County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 14,125. [1] Its county seat is York. [2]In the Nebraska license plate system, York County is represented by the prefix 17 (it had the seventeenth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
As of 2008, Keya Paha County was the most Republican of all the counties in Nebraska, with 82.7% of its 707 registered voters registered as Republicans. [15] The last Democratic presidential candidate to win the county was Woodrow Wilson in 1916. [16] In 1932, it was one of only two counties in the state not to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Nuckolls County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 4,095. [1] Its county seat is Nelson. [2]In the Nebraska license plate system, Nuckolls County is represented by the prefix 42 (it had the 42nd-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
The county engages in extensive civil asset forfeiture. Having less than 18,000 people, it accounted for at least 90 cases in the last decade, one-third of all civil forfeiture cases in the state during that period and double that of any other Nebraska county. From 2018 to 2023, the county obtained $7.5 million in forfeited cash.
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Several local drainages move runoff water from the county eastward into the Platte. The county terrain is composed of low rolling hills, [11] which slope eastward and northeastward to the river valley. The county has an area of 760 square miles (2,000 km 2), of which 750 square miles (1,900 km 2) is land and 9.6 square miles (25 km 2) (1.3%) is ...