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Chase County, Nebraska

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

7historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

3,893pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Imperial, Wauneta, Champion.

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 Chase titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Balcony House	Imperial	Building	2000
Champion Mill	Champion	District	1988
Chase County Courthouse	Imperial	Building	1990
Lovett Site	Wauneta	Site	1972
Pinkie's Corner	Imperial	District	2011
Texas Trail Stone Corral	Imperial	Structure	2002
Wauneta Roller Mills	Wauneta	Building	2008

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Chase was formed in 1873 (1873-02-27) from unknown / original county.

CHASE created from Non-County Area 4.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Chase County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
70	2,559	4,939	5,310	5,176	4,317	4,758	4,068	3,893

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

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
Chase Cemetery	40.5525	-101.80823
Green Lawn Cemetery	40.523	-101.97867
Lake View Cemetery	40.45721	-101.77096
Mount Hope Cemetery	40.52972	-101.66128
Pleasant View Cemetery	40.43749	-101.85629
Riverside Cemetery	40.41889	-101.39905

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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