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County
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FIPS code
| County seat
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Established |
Origin
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Etymolgy
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| Adams County | 001 | Hastings | 1867 | Un-Organized | John Adams, Founding Father and the second President of the United States |  |
| Antelope County | 003 | Neligh | 1871 | Un-Organized | Pronghorn, often called antelope |  |
| Arthur County | 005 | Arthur | 1887 | Un-Organized | Chester A. Arthur, president of the United States |  |
| Banner County | 007 | Harrisburg | 1888 | Formed from Cheyenne | Named for the hope of the early settlers to make the county the "banner county" of the state |  |
| Blaine County | 009 | Brewster | 1885 | Unorganized | James G. Blaine (1843-1923), U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time United States Secretary of State, and Republican candidate in the 1884 presidential election |  |
| Boone County | 011 | Albion | 1871 | Unorganized | Daniel Boone |  |
| Box Butte County | 013 | Alliance | 1887 | Formed from Dawes | Named for a large box-shaped butte located approximately six miles north of Alliance, Nebraska, the county seat. |  |
| Boyd County | 015 | Butte | 1891 | Holt County, and Un-Organized (Indian Territory) | James E. Boyd, the eighth governor of Nebraska |  |
| Brown County | 017 | Ainsworth | 1883 | Un-Organized | legislator with name of Brown |  |
| Buffalo County | 019 | Kearney | 1855 | Un-Organized | Named for the American Bison which once roamed the present county |  |
| Burt County | 021 | Tekamah | 1854 | One of Nine Original Counties | Francis Burt, the first territorial governor of Nebraska who died after two days in office. |  |
| Butler County | 023 | David City | 1856 | Formed from Greene | David Butler or William Orlando Butler |  |
| Cass County | 025 | Plattsmouth | 1854 | One of Nine Original Counties | Lewis Cass, the American statesman and senator from Michigan |  |
| Cedar County | 027 | Hartington | 1857 | Formed from Dixon and Pierce Counties | Named for the many juniper trees (locally mis-identified as cedars) in the area |  |
| Chase County | 029 | Imperial | 1873 | Un-Organized | Champion S. Chase, a mayor of Omaha, Nebraska who served as Nebraska's first attorney general |  |
| Cherry County | 031 | Valentine | 1883 | Un-Organized | Samuel A. Cherry |  |
| Cheyenne County | 033 | Sidney | 1867 | Un-Organized | Named for the Cheyenne Native American tribe |  |
| Clay County | 035 | Clay Center | 1855 | Formed from Un-Organized | Henry Clay, the Kentucky statesman and presidential candidate |  |
| Colfax County | 037 | Schuyler | 1869 | Formed from Platte County | Schuyler Colfax |  |
| Cuming County | 039 | West Point | 1855 | Formed from Burt County | Thomas B. Cuming |  |
| Custer County | 041 | Broken Bow | 1877 | Un-Organized | George Armstrong Custer |  |
| Dakota County | 043 | Dakota City | 1855 | Formed from Burt County | Named for the Dakota branch of the Sioux Native American tribe |  |
| Dawes County | 045 | Chadron | 1885 | Formed from Sioux County | James W. Dawes, the sixth governor of Nebraska |  |
| Dawson County | 047 | Lexington | 1860 | Un-Organized | Jacob Dawson, who was the first postmaster in the settlement of Lancaster, which is present-day Lincoln, Nebraska, the state capital |  |
| Deuel County | 049 | Chappell | 1888 | Formed from Cheyenne County | Deuel family |  |
| Dixon County | 051 | Ponca | 1856 | Formed from Blackbird County, Izard County and Un-Organized | Dixon family |  |
| Dodge County | 053 | Fremont | 1854 | One of Nine Original Counties | Augustus Caesar Dodge, a United States senator from Iowa who was a supporter of the Kansas-Nebraska Act |  |
| Douglas County | 055 | Omaha | 1854 | One of Nine Original Counties | Stephen Arnold Douglas, the American statesman, U. S. senator, and presidential candidate |  |
| Dundy County | 057 | Benkelman | 1873 | Un-Organized | Elmer Scipio Dundy, a U.S. Circuit Court judge from Nebraska |  |
| Fillmore County | 059 | Geneva | 1856 | Formed from Jackson County and Un-Organized | Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth president of the United States |  |
| Franklin County | 061 | Franklin | 1867 | Formed from Kearney | Benjamin Franklin, the Founding Father, printer, scientist, and diplomat |  |
| Frontier County | 063 | Stockville | 1872 | Un-organized | Named for the fact that it was located in what was referred to at that time as part of the Nebraska frontier |  |
| Furnas County | 065 | Beaver City | 1873 | Un-Organized | Robert Wilkinson Furnas, the third governor of Nebraska |  |
| Gage County | 067 | Beatrice | 1855 | Un-Organized | William D. Gage, a Methodist minister who served as chaplain of the state legislature at the time the county was established |  |
| Garden County | 069 | Oshkosh | 1910 | Formed from Deuel County | Named for the hopes of two real estate agents and citizens of the county seat, Oshkosh, Nebraska, that the county would be the "garden spot of the west" |  |
| Garfield County | 071 | Burwell | 1884 | Formed from Wheeler County | James Abram Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States |  |
| Gosper County | 073 | Elwood | 1873 | Un-Organized | John J. Gosper, the secretary of state for Nebraska at the time of the county's formation |  |
| Grant County | 075 | Hyannis | 1887 | Un-Organized | Ulysses Simpson Grant, the eighteenth president of the United States and American Civil War general |  |
| Greeley County | 077 | Greeley | 1871 | Un-Organized | Horace Greeley, the pioneering American journalist |  |
| Hall County | 079 | Grand Island | 1858 | Un-Organized | Augustus Hall, the chief justice of the Territorial Supreme Court at the time the county was created |  |
| Hamilton County | 081 | Aurora | 1867 | Un-Organized | Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury |  |
| Harlan County | 083 | Alma | 1871 | Formed from Kearney | James Harlan, who was the United States Secretary of the Interior in 1865 and 1866; or a revenue collector by the name of Harlan who once lived near Republican City, Nebraska |  |
| Hayes County | 085 | Hayes Center | 1877 | Un-Organized | Rutherford Birchard Hayes, the nineteenth president of the United States |  |
| Hitchcock County | 087 | Trenton | 1873 | Un-Organized | Phineas Warren Hitchcock, a U.S. Senator from Nebraska |  |
| Holt County | 089 | O'Neill | 1860 | Un-Organized (Formerly- West County) | Joseph Holt, a U.S. Postmaster General and U.S. Secretary of War under James Buchanan |  |
| Hooker County | 091 | Mullen | 1889 | Un-Organized | Joseph Hooker, an American Civil War general |  |
| Howard County | 093 | Saint Paul | 1871 | Formed from Hall County | Oliver Otis Howard, an American Civil War general |  |
| Jefferson County | 095 | Fairbury | 1856 | Un-organized | Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States |  |
| Johnson County | 097 | Tecumseh | 1857 | Formed from Nemaha and Otoe Counties | Richard Mentor Johnson, the ninth vice president of the United States |  |
| Kearney County | 099 | Minden | 1860 | Un-Organized | Named for Fort Kearny - when the county was created the fort's name was misspelled |  |
| Keith County | 101 | Ogallala | 1873 | Un-Organized | M. C. Keith, who owned one of the largest ranches in western Nebraska at the time |  |
| Keya Paha County | 103 | Springview | 1884 | Formed from Brown County and Un-Organized (Indian Territory) | Dakota words Ké-ya Pa-há Wa-kpá, which, translated, mean turtle hill river |  |
| Kimball County | 105 | Kimball | 1888 | Formed from Cheyenne County | Thomas L. Kimball, an official of the Union Pacific Railroad |  |
| Knox County | 107 | Center | 1857 | Formed from Pierce County and Un-Organized (Formal names-L'Eau Qui Court (1857-1867) and Emmet (1867-1873)) | Henry Knox, the first United States Secretary of War |  |
| Lancaster County | 109 | Lincoln | 1855 | Formed from Cass, and Pierce Counties | The cities of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Lancaster, England. |  |
| Lincoln County | 111 | North Platte | 1860 | Un-Organized (Formerly Shorter County) | Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States |  |
| Logan County | 113 | Stapleton | 1885 | Un-Organized | John Alexander Logan, a general in the American Civil War |  |
| Loup County | 115 | Taylor | 1883 | Un-Organized | Loup River which in turn is named for the French word loup which means wolf |  |
| Madison County | 119 | Madison | 1856 | Formed from Loup County and McNeale Counties and Un-Organized | Either James Madison, the fourth president of the United States; or, more likely, Madison, Wisconsin, where most of the new county's settlers were from |  |
| McPherson County | 117 | Tryon | 1887 | Un-Organized | James Birdseye McPherson, a general in the American Civil War |  |
| Merrick County | 121 | Central City | 1858 | Formed from Polk County and Un-Organized | Elvira Merrick, wife of Henry W. DePuy, a territorial legislator |  |
| Morrill County | 123 | Bridgeport | 1908 | Formed from Cheyenne County | Charles Henry Morrill, a president of the Lincoln Land Company |  |
| Nance County | 125 | Fullerton | 1879 | Formed from Pawnee Reservation | Albinus Nance, the fourth governor of Nebraska |  |
| Nemaha County | 127 | Auburn | 1854 | One of Nine original counties (Formerly Forney) | Nimaha, the Oto name meaning miry water for a stream which crossed the county and emptied into the Missouri River |  |
| Nuckolls County | 129 | Nelson | 1860 | Un-Organized | Lafayette Nuckolls, a member of the first Nebraska territorial legislature; and his brother, Stephen Nuckolls, a pioneer Nebraska settler, businessman and banker |  |
| Otoe County | 131 | Nebraska City | 1854 | One of nine Original Counties (Formerly Pierce) | Oto (also Otoe) Native American tribe |  |
| Pawnee County | 133 | Pawnee City | 1855 | Formed from Richardson County | Pawnee Native American tribe |  |
| Perkins County | 135 | Grant | 1887 | Formed from Kieth County | Charles E. Perkins, a president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; or Joseph Perkins, a former resident of Grant, Nebraska |  |
| Phelps County | 137 | Holdrege | 1873 | Formed from Kearney County | William Phelps, a riverboat captain on the Mississippi River who is alleged to have settled in the area |  |
| Pierce County | 139 | Pierce | 1856 | Formed from Izard County, McNeale County and Un-Organized | Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president of the United States |  |
| Platte County | 141 | Columbus | 1856 | Formed from Greene and Loup Counties | Platte River which is in turn named for the French word for flat platte |  |
| Polk County | 143 | Osceola | 1856 | Formed from York County and Un-Organized | James Knox Polk, the eleventh president of the United States |  |
| Red Willow County | 145 | McCook | 1873 | Un-Organized | Red Willow Creek, which runs through the area |  |
| Richardson County | 147 | Falls City | 1854 | One of Nine Original Counties | William A. Richardson, a governor of the Nebraska Territory |  |
| Rock County | 149 | Bassett | 1885 | Formed from Brown County | Either Rock Creek, which flows in the county; or the rocky condition of the soil in the area |  |
| Saline County | 151 | Wilber | 1867 | Un-organized | Named for a belief held by the early pioneers that great salt springs and deposits could be found in the area, a hope found to be false |  |
| Sarpy County | 153 | Papillion | 1857 | Formed from Cass and Douglas Counties | Peter A. Sarpy, a commander of a trading post in the future county |  |
| Saunders County | 155 | Wahoo | 1856 | Formed from Douglas and Lancaster (Formerly Calhoun County (1856-1865)) | Alvin Saunders, a governor of the Nebraska Territory |  |
| Scotts Bluff County | 157 | Gering | 1888 | Formed from Cheyenne County | Named for a towering bluff located in the Scotts Bluff National Monument, named in turn for Hiram Scott, a fur trapper who is alleged to have crawled 75 miles with a broken leg before collapsing and dying at the foot of the bluff |  |
| Seward County | 159 | Seward | 1855 | Formed from Cass and Pierce Counties (Formerly- Greene County) | William Henry Seward, the United States Secretary of State during the 1860s |  |
| Sheridan County | 161 | Rushville | 1885 | Formed from Sioux County | Philip Henry Sheridan, a general in the American Civil War |  |
| Sherman County | 163 | Loup City | 1871 | Formed from Buffalo County and Un-Organized | William Tecumseh Sherman, the American Civil War general |  |
| Sioux County | 165 | Harrison | 1877 | Un-Organized | Sioux Native American tribe |  |
| Stanton County | 167 | Stanton | 1855 | Formed from Burt County (Formerly Izard County) | Edwin McMasters Stanton, the United States Secretary of War during most of the American Civil War |  |
| Thayer County | 169 | Hebron | 1871 | Formed from Jefferson County | John Milton Thayer, the seventh governor of Nebraska |  |
| Thomas County | 171 | Thedford | 1887 | Un-Organized | George Henry Thomas, a general in the American Civil War |  |
| Thurston County | 173 | Pender | 1889 | Formed form Blackbird County and Omaha Reservation | John Mellen Thurston, a U. S. senator from Nebraska |  |
| Valley County | 175 | Ord | 1871 | Un-Organized | Named for the many valleys in the area |  |
| Washington County | 177 | Blair | 1854 | One of Nine Original Counties | George Washington, the first president of the United States |  |
| Wayne County | 179 | Wayne | 1867 | Un-Organized | Anthony Wayne, the American Revolutionary War general nicknamed "Mad Anthony" by his troops |  |
| Webster County | 181 | Red Cloud | 1867 | Un-organized | Daniel Webster, the American statesman |  |
| Wheeler County | 183 | Bartlett | 1877 | Un-Organized | Daniel H. Wheeler, a secretary of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture |  |
| York County | 185 | York | 1855 | Formed from Cass County, Pierce County and Un-Organized | Named for either York, England, or York County, Pennsylvania |  |
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