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Dakota County, Nebraska

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1855formed

21,582pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1969. Most listings are in or near Homer, Emerson, Dakota City.

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 Dakota titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bonderson, Ben, Farm	Emerson	Building	2006
Emmanuel Lutheran Church	Dakota City	Building	1969
Homer Site	Homer	Site	1973
Meisch House	South Sioux City	Building	1986
O'Connor, Cornelius, House	Homer	Building	1977

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Dakota was formed in 1855 (1855-03-16) from Burt.

DAKOTA created by Nebraska Territory from BURT and non-county area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Dakota County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
819	3,213	6,286	7,694	9,836	10,401	12,168	16,573	20,253	21,582

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

10 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Green Valley Cemetery	42.28968	-96.53635
Hale Cemetery	42.31896	-96.57561
Jopp Cemetery	42.27797	-96.62861
Omaha Valley Cemetery	42.29063	-96.48243
Saint Cornelius Cemetery	42.32898	-96.49403
Saint Johns Cemetery	42.47102	-96.56699
Saint Marys Cemetery	42.37661	-96.59021
Saint Michaels Cemetery	42.45495	-96.45087
Taylor Cemetery	42.36444	-96.52087
Woods Cemetery	42.40118	-96.70695

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Covington	42.48611	-96.41142

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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