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Banner County, Nebraska

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1888formed

674pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1984. Most listings are in or near Harrisburg.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Nebraska is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Banner titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Hampton, C. C., Homestead	Harrisburg	District	1984

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Banner was formed in 1888 (1888-11-06) from CHEYENNE by vote of electors.

BANNER created from CHEYENNE by vote of electors.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Banner County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,435	1,114	1,435	1,403	1,325	1,269	918	819	674

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
scbl	Park unit	32.2 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

6 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Chaulk Creek Cemetery	41.54971	-103.37814
Epworth Cemetery	41.50956	-104.02595
Gabe Rock Cemetery	41.56687	-103.87012
Harrisburg Cemetery	41.54298	-103.71582
Kirk Cemetery	41.51036	-103.46528
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	41.6697	-103.94636

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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