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Cherry County, Nebraska

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
12historic places
—earliest paper
1883formed
5,455pop. 2020
16cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 12 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1982. Most listings are in or near Valentine, Mullen, Brownlee.

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 Cherry titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

11 of 12 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

12 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Bell BridgeValentineStructure1992
Berry State Aid BridgeValentineStructure1992
Borman BridgeValentineStructure1992
Brewer BridgeValentineStructure1992
Bryan BridgeValentineStructure1988
Cherry County CourthouseValentineDistrict1990
County Line BridgeValentineStructure2018
Dry Valley Church and CemeteryMullenBuilding2007
Twin BridgeBrownleeStructure1992
US Post Office-ValentineValentineBuilding1991
Valentine Public SchoolValentineBuilding1984
Walcott, F. M., HouseValentineBuilding1982

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Cherry was formed in 1883 (1883-02-23) from Sioux.

CHERRY created from SIOUX and Non-County Area 1.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

12k8,6045,45518901920196020002020
189019001920194019501960198020002020
6,4286,54111,7539,6378,3978,2186,7586,1485,455

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).

SiteTypeDist.
niobPark unit52.2 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 16 of 16 listed
NameLatLon
Center Cemetery42.7931-101.73113
Giles Cemetery42.16037-100.18245
James Cemetery42.14322-100.9761
Kewanee Cemetery42.93306-100.33673
Lamson Cemetery42.62644-101.09078
Larson Cemetery42.62639-101.0907
Lavaca Cemetery42.73317-102.01852
Minnechaduza Cemetery42.87337-100.56796
Mount Hope Cemetery42.86691-100.53668
Mount Hope Cemetery42.63745-100.233
Prairie Lawn Cemetery42.92947-101.22751
Richland Harmony Cemetery42.97626-100.57422
Saint Joseph Cemetery42.96996-100.33737
Saint Marys Cemetery42.93038-101.0931
Sparks Cemetery42.94029-100.2466
Taylor Cemetery42.81311-100.48323

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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